Posted by Dr. Bob on June 28, 2001, at 9:28:05
In reply to Re: Can't find my post » Dr. Bob, posted by Cece on June 28, 2001, at 3:00:57
> Thank you for finding the thread for me! Could I have done so easily myself with a search? When I have tried searching for things, I have often been overwhelmed by the # of items that came up to sort through.
1. The search function is never completely current, so it won't work for very recent posts.
2. In general, however, there are lots of ways to refine searches. For example, if you search just for "cece" you get 101 posts, and if you search just for "methadone", you get 56. But if you search ("with options") for "cece methadone" and click the "every term" option, you get only 6.
3. That doesn't work, however, if the poster doesn't sign their posts, because only the bodies of posts are indexed. But I'm hoping to do something about that sometime.
** Hey, would anyone out there be interested in working on that? It's in Perl...
4. Your browser's built-in search function can search particular pages. I think in this case I just used that to search the main PB page for " zo ".
Feel free to try out the above yourself. Hope this helps,
Bob
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