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Subject: 
Re: Weird thing I just noticed
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:07:41 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Joslin writes:
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.

This appears to happen to me too - all the older stuff shows up 1st. I'd
imagine a good default would be newest 1st????


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?

I have noticed the search also picks up the content of cancelled posts - or
at least the old method did.

Scott A

Remove them from
the pool of articles being searched, or some such.

Just curious.

eric



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  Re: Weird thing I just noticed
 
(...) I wasn't so concerned about the order it appeared in (which I beleive is ranked by what best matches your search criteria, not time-based), but the fact that it displayed partial content for an article you can't actually view. I don't mind if (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Weird thing I just noticed
 
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 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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