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Tom
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Date Joined Jul 2001
Total Posts : 10353
| Posted 1/18/2004 3:43 AM (GMT -6) |   | It's a little early in the year for my annual complaint about the STUPID search machine, but I really needed it to work this week and it just doesn't work well at all. Back on our CoolBoard days we enjoyed a thread of several pages entitled "Jesus and Freewill." I know that's the title because I printed it out and have it in front of me. But I've used the search machine 100 different ways, including dragging myself through page after page of archived stuff looking for it. It's not there. Really bothers me. REEEEALLY does. Whether you include archived posts or not, it doesn't work. 90% of the time the search feature doesn't work for me. For fun once I did a search on "Jesus" searching ONLY the title (not the text) and came up with pages and pages of theads not one of which had the word "Jesus" in the title. I refuse to try to us it anymore.
So there.
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Mayflower
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Date Joined Mar 2002
Total Posts : 445
| Posted 1/18/2004 7:32 AM (GMT -6) | | .
Greetings, Tom:
I can relate. The search engine is maddening.
However, since you have a PRINTED COPY of the thread you're searching for, this information could greatly help in your efforts to locate the thread again.
IF YOU HAVE THE NAME OF THE MEMBER WHO ORIGINALLY STARTED THE THREAD, try using this information to track down the thread you're searching for.
1) Go to the section entitled "MEMBERS":
http://gregboyd.org/gbfront/forum/members.asp
2) Next, find & click the 'NAME LINK' for the person who started the specific thread you're searching for. (TGB, etc.).
3) The "USER PROFILE" page
("View Profile": http://gregboyd.org/gbfront/forum/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=25) for the thread author then provides access to yet another link, shown below:
4) "Find all non-archived posts by TGB":
http://gregboyd.org/gbfront/forum/search.asp?mode=DoIt&MEMBER_ID=25
5) Next...
USE THE DATE, CATEGORY, & TITLE to search amongst his/her archived posts for the thread you're looking for.
For example: If the thread was originally posted in the "Let's solve the problem of evil" category, restrict your search to ONLY this section.
Then use the DATE (found on the "printed" copy that you have of this thread), to further narrow the scope of your search.
WARNING:
If an author has somewhere in the vicinity of "2188 Total Posts," this may be a ver-r-r-r-r-r-ry lengthy process!
Anyway, I hope this works for you...
Peace & blessings,
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quote:
TGB wrote:
It's a little early in the year for my annual complaint about the STUPID search machine, but I really needed it to work this week and it just doesn't work well at all. Back on our CoolBoard days we enjoyed a thread of several pages entitled "Jesus and Freewill." I know that's the title because I printed it out and have it in front of me. But I've used the search machine 100 different ways, including dragging myself through page after page of archived stuff looking for it. It's not there. Really bothers me. REEEEALLY does. Whether you include archived posts or not, it doesn't work. 90% of the time the search feature doesn't work for me. For fun once I did a search on "Jesus" searching ONLY the title (not the text) and came up with pages and pages of theads not one of which had the word "Jesus" in the title. I refuse to try to us it anymore.
So there.
Tom
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