Guest guest Posted November 13, 1999 Report Share Posted November 13, 1999 Gosh Tim, I'm glad you were able to make some headway with the search function because I couldn't get anywhere with it. I tried every way I could think of but still couldn't get it to work. I was trying under subject matter at first, which didn't work, so then when I finally found the message, I entered the number in the search window and still got no results. The only problem with playing around with the URL is you need to know the message number, or somewhere in the vicinity. There should be some way to search by author, subject, or whatever. I was pretty sure it was Carole, but just took so long to finally get to it. Carol timothy romlein wrote: original article:/group//?start=6598 > Thank you Carol! Your search of the messages made me want to say > that there is a search function on the message page but it > doesn't work. (I have sent egroups a note saying it would be > nice if it worked, they replied it was broken but it's fixed. I > still couldn't get any results!) I checked again, sure enough, > no results. Then I looked at the URL and saw it had the start > set to the last posting. So I changed it to start at 5000. Lo > and behold, results popped out! The next search again gave no > results, so I changed start from 4089 to 89. 28 post found which > revealed the record of the earlier discussion. > > It started with Carole's mention of recurrance (4842), > asked for more info (4890) as did Jodi (4896). said he > thought the rate was 2% (4970). Carole gave brief story (4980) > Peg asked for poll data (4982) expressed sympathy (4999) > Jodi asked about process (5024) Biddy expressed concern and > asked history (5036,5037) Carole gave the long version (5088) > Luanne's welcome (5121) C. reports hearing of a study > which indicates 20% recurrance rate, but can't find the > reference. > > Now I've found a trick to make the search work. (I hate it. The > search should work without having to twiddle the URL. Maybe when > OneList & Egroups start merging the onelist search will prevail > - though I'm not real happy about their search either - at least > it works.) Has any one else experienced dysfunctional searches > at egroups? > > Tim > > P.S. A quick way to go to a particular message # is to put it at > the end of the pcs-support URL with a question mark, e.g. for > 4980 use: > /group//4980.html? > > --- cstaples@... wrote: > > Hi , > > > > When you asked the question about PSC reoccurring after > > transplant, I was certain that I had read that someone in > > our group had posted that she now has PSC again, post > > transplant. After searching through the old messages on > > the web, I finally found it. It is message #5088, Sep.29. > > I am not certain if there is a quick way to get to that > > particular message. I just kept clicking back until I > > found it. Maybe someone else can enlighten us if there > > is a more rapid search to get to a particular message or > > date. Carol > > ===== > > __________________________________________________ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 1999 Report Share Posted November 14, 1999 I'd like to clarify what caused the search to return with something other than " no matches for 'pouchitis' " (which I got when I searched for " pouchitis " . In the URL I changed " & start=6601 & " to " & start=601 & " (I think any change would work) and hit <enter> (carriage return key). It came back almost immediately with a page of 1-14 of 19 messages containing " pouchitis " . (most recent first). Another search for my id again didn't return anything until I changed " start=1 " to " start=11 " . Then it had 290! Tim --- cstaples@... wrote: > > Gosh Tim, I'm glad you were able to make some headway with the > search function because I couldn't get anywhere with it. I > tried > every way I could think of but still couldn't get it to work. > I was trying under subject matter at first, which didn't work, > so then when I finally found the message, I entered the number > in the search window and still got no results. The only > problem > with playing around with the URL is you need to know the > message > number, or somewhere in the vicinity. ... ===== __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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