Finding Posts

[normd]

Am I doing something dumb? Ween searching for posts in this system I enter words from my posts - that I know are in there - and the search keeps coming back with nothing found. I entered the original; I KNOW it is there

Further, I search, as a test, for posts I'm looking at on the screen and using words from their subject line, and it tells me "nothing found!

Is there a way to find posts from an author without starting with a post from that author?

[Rob Oldfield]

Re: Finding Posts

Depends what newsreader you're using. I'm using OE 6 and have found the
search lousy as well. I tend to use Google instead.


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enter words from my posts - that I know are in there - and the search keeps
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[John Eikanger [MSFT]]

Re: Finding Posts

Hi, Norm

As Rob says, it depends on the search engine. Another factor is latency.
Some engines cache and search that rather than doing a live search, so the
most recent posts may not show up. Google is the standard until something
better comes along.

John Eikanger
Microsoft Developer Support

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| From: "Rob Oldfield"
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| Subject: Re: Finding Posts
| Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 20:14:14 +0100
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| Depends what newsreader you're using. I'm using OE 6 and have found the
| search lousy as well. I tend to use Google instead.
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| "normd" <normd@online.k norrassociates. com> wrote in message
| news:A0E7B5FF-D95A-44BB-9543-EED269296E33@mi crosoft.com...
| > Am I doing something dumb? Ween searching for posts in this system I
| enter words from my posts - that I know are in there - and the search
keeps
| coming back with nothing found. I entered the original; I KNOW it is
there!
| >
| > Further, I search, as a test, for posts I'm looking at on the screen and
| using words from their subject line, and it tells me "nothing found!"
| >
| > Is there a way to find posts from an author without starting with a post
| from that author?
|
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