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Subject:	Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:27:44 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: > > The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled... <snip> > > To do soon: > > * Implement date range restrictions on searches. > In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Jezek writes: > ...which makes the search pretty much useless... I would have to concur. > For now, if you don't mind URL mucking, you can manually append > &qs=<number> to the URL and it will use that number (in seconds) > as a time delta. For example, to limit posts to the last 10 days, > use &qs=864000 < goes away and tries it... > Umm - Would it not make sense to simply include the appropriate qualifier on the system side? (I tried it and got two year old results for "qs", but I'm probably doing something wrong.) <snip> > To do someday: > * Facilitate searching within search results This would be a very useful feature - just like large search "engines" SRC

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		Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
(...) Not yet, no. See "to-do soon" section in previous post. (...) For now, if you don't mind URL mucking, you can manually append &qs=<number> to the URL and it will use that number (in seconds) as a time delta. For example, to limit posts to the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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