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Subject:	Re: Todd, can you explain the search function again?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:49:45 GMT
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:22:53 GMT, "richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote: > In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: > > You should get this: > > http://news.lugnet.com/?q=brad+justus+%3C10+%3E10 > > Well, from the main Lugnet news page I got: > http://news.lugnet.com/?q=brad+justus+%3C10%3E10 OK, I'm guessing that you typed the <10 and the >10 right next to each other rather than as separate "words," ya? My parser doesn't expect the < and the > to occur in the same word. I'll need to fix that before you can put them so close together. If you type <10 >10 (note the space character between the "0" and the ">") then what happens? > > There's also this, which isn't linked in yet: > > http://www.lugnet.com/help/search/news/ > > It's bookmarked now -- many thanks, Todd. Anything in there that you find confusing or incomplete? I wrote it in a hurry. > I know the previous search was suspected of causing you system-wide problems > but the cool thing about it was being able to search for posts made by > particular individuals and getting back those individual's more recent posts > near the top of the returned result set. That was hella cool! And I > *REALLY* wish we could get something like that back again without causing > you the other hassles at the same time. I'm gonna add a "re-sort by" thingy that'll allow the results to be displayed by chronology or by relevance. > I'll cross my fingers, but not hold > my breath (recognizing that you have a life and other probably more pressing > matters). Please, keep in mind the idea of an author search of some kind if > you ever get back to fiddling with the search function again. > > I appreciate your speedy reply, BTW. I can't give you a speedy reply during the day, but now that I've got a laptop I'm writing this while I'm on the bus home from work. (I'll upload the message when I get home. :-) --Todd

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		Re: Todd, can you explain the search function again?
(...) I should say can't always; the first reply was just after a meeting and just before lunch -- happened to check in and see it just after you posted it. (...) Ah, neat...it worked. I love Forte Free Agent! And it's really nice on my Crusoe (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: Todd, can you explain the search function again?
(...) (URL)There's also this, which isn't linked in yet: (...) I know the previous search was suspected of causing you system-wide problems but the cool thing about it was being able to search for posts made by particular individuals and getting (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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