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Subject: 
Weird thing I just noticed
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:27:29 GMT
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After reading Tim's post about "My recent posts" I went off and did a Lugnet
News Search on "Lorbaat".  The first post that turned up was posted to
admin.terms.council- which of course no longer exists.

Since you can't access the posts, even after they're found in the search, is it
possible to just not have them show up if a search is done?  Remove them from
the pool of articles being searched, or some such.

Just curious.

eric



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Weird thing I just noticed
 
(...) Gah. Clearly, should read lugnet.admin.council. -e (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Weird thing I just noticed
 
(...) This appears to happen to me too - all the older stuff shows up 1st. I'd imagine a good default would be newest 1st???? (...) I have noticed the search also picks up the content of cancelled posts - or at least the old method did. Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Weird thing I just noticed
 
(...) The newsgroup doesn't exist, but quick check shows that the articles *are* still accessible - from here: (URL) www.- prefix instead of news.- prefix.) So Todd simply never moved the articles to news.lugnet.com . Interesting. That makes me (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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