Re: Re: search feature, revisited

[Guest guest]

You may have a point there, I also noticed that none of the new

posts showed up on my search either. BUT, the OLD stuff IS

there and as you have already found it, tis a wealth of

information. Hopefully they will get the indexing thing worked out

eventually.

zoe

alt_ideas wrote:

>> I hate to dispel the myth

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> Ok, not to pick on Zoe or anything, BUT... I have not been

> able to find articles on our list (via either simple or advanced

> search) that I know were posted recently. Also, I'm not the only

> one; LaGrand noted it as well.

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> As an example, I searched for both " alt_ideas " (my e-mail address)

> or " Vicki in Orlando " (how I often sign my posts) and got no

> results whatsoever. Now I remember that when posted similar

> results, she noted that nothing apppeared after the 1st quarter of

> this year (January or Feb maybe, can't remember). So now I'm

> thinking it's an indexing issue... Older messages apparently are

> indexed, but newer ones have not been indexed since they started

> working on the search feature (just a guess, obviously).

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> This has only been an issue for me when trying to answer a specific

> question, after tripping over a probable " answer " elsewhere.

>

> Vicki

> who is *not* imagining things, I swear!

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>> Folks,

>> I hate to dispel the myth but I just went there, did a search on

>> cutting layers ( did the advanced search and put both these terms in

>> the section for message body)

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>> Voila ! It pulled up the entire conversation 15 posts going as

>> far back as 2005 and took all of 12 seconds to pull up the list.

>>

>> I copied the original post for you here.

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