Posted by Larry Hoover on October 21, 2003, at 10:58:02
In reply to Re: times viewed and posts by certain posters, posted by Dr. Bob on October 21, 2003, at 1:11:18
> > 1. Have you ever considered having a format where it shows how many times a certain thread has been viewed?
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> I don't think I have... Would that change which posts you read?
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> > 2. Also, what about search where you can search for posts by a certain poster?
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> > Ace.
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> > http://www.dr-bob.org/cgi-bin/xv/search.pl
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> > Then page down. You can do that, but I think it might be part of the search function that is limited to a certain date range???
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> > Dinah
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> Yes, Psycho-Babble Search searches only older posts. But you can do something similar with Google Search by including, for example, "posted by ace" as a search term.
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> BobThe problem is, Dr. Bob, that works only if someone replies to the poster. I've run into problems trying to find posts I've made, for example, when the topic at hand has been addressed before. Google searches fail if I use Larry Hoover as a search term because the "posted by" part is not part of the message itself. Only if someone replies to me (thereby causing the "posted by" part to appear within the message body), and quotes relevant portions of my post (i.e. with the same terms as those I'm trying to search), will I find the relevant thread.
Lar
P.S. Light-bulb moment. Maybe I should use Lar as a search term?
poster:Larry Hoover
thread:271272
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20031008/msgs/271447.html