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Anonymous
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‎10-09-2001 12:01 AM
‎10-09-2001 12:01 AM

searching this ng

How do we search this newsgroup these days? I'm using Microsoft Internet Explorer to view it. I see two search hyperlinks; one at the top of my screen that searches autodesk.com, and one right above the message thread list that bumps my back to the newsgroup index, but nothing seems to allow the topical searches that were possible until fairly recently.
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 01:47 AM
‎10-09-2001 01:47 AM

Me too.

Why?
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 02:18 AM
‎10-09-2001 02:18 AM

Since nobody has answered us by now, I'm starting to wonder if it is no longer possible. That would be a shame, as it would disable this ng as a research tool.
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 02:34 AM
‎10-09-2001 02:34 AM

I remember someone talking about using google.com as a newgroup search
engine.
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Cliff

"Tom_Brabant" wrote in message
news:f08a49c.-1@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
| How do we search this newsgroup these days? I'm using Microsoft Internet
Explorer to view it. I see two search hyperlinks; one at the top of my
screen that searches autodesk.com, and one right above the message thread
list that bumps my back to the newsgroup index, but nothing seems to allow
the topical searches that were possible until fairly recently.
|
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 02:37 AM
‎10-09-2001 02:37 AM

i posted this question on another newsgroup and the answer i got was that it has been disabled for the time being.(cleaning up the ng structure) There was no mention of when it would be working again.
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 03:08 AM
‎10-09-2001 03:08 AM

Hello, Mr. Middleton. Was thinking about that earlier so I tried google advanced search, with restricting domain to this ng's domain generating string,"lwpolyline site:discussion.autodesk.com". No hits. So tried, "lisp site:discussion.autodesk.com". No better. Not very reassuring. Control group (to preclude operator error) of "google site:www.google.com" and got back about two thousand. So that's a puzzler. I wonder what would happen if somebody were to hit that little "view all" link under the threads.......I'm on a pentium 200....I'm kind of scared to hit it.......
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 04:22 AM
‎10-09-2001 04:22 AM

My solution is to view newsgroups through Microsoft
Outlook Express.  It has always been easier and faster for me to
search view and download messages that way.

 


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How
do we search this newsgroup these days? I'm using Microsoft Internet Explorer
to view it. I see two search hyperlinks; one at the top of my screen that
searches autodesk.com, and one right above the message thread list that bumps
my back to the newsgroup index, but nothing seems to allow the topical
searches that were possible until fairly recently.
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 04:29 AM
‎10-09-2001 04:29 AM

Try this url. You will probably have to cut and paste it, since the last character seems
to have been exluded from the hyperlink.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=autodesk.autocad.customization&btnG=Search&meta=

Chuck


"Tom_Brabant" wrote in message
news:f08a49c.4@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Hello, Mr. Middleton. Was thinking about that earlier so I tried google advanced search,
with restricting domain to this ng's domain generating string,"lwpolyline
site:discussion.autodesk.com". No hits. So tried, "lisp site:discussion.autodesk.com". No
better. Not very reassuring. Control group (to preclude operator error) of "google
site:www.google.com" and got back about two thousand. So that's a puzzler. I wonder what
would happen if somebody were to hit that little "view all" link under the
threads.......I'm on a pentium 200....I'm kind of scared to hit it.......
>
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 04:33 AM
‎10-09-2001 04:33 AM

I don't know much about google but you can search
autodesk.autocad.customization instead of discussion.autodesk.com to narrow
it down a bit.
--
Cliff

"Tom_Brabant" wrote in message
news:f08a49c.4@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
| Hello, Mr. Middleton. Was thinking about that earlier so I tried google
advanced search, with restricting domain to this ng's domain generating
string,"lwpolyline site:discussion.autodesk.com". No hits. So tried, "lisp
site:discussion.autodesk.com". No better. Not very reassuring. Control group
(to preclude operator error) of "google site:www.google.com" and got back
about two thousand. So that's a puzzler. I wonder what would happen if
somebody were to hit that little "view all" link under the threads.......I'm
on a pentium 200....I'm kind of scared to hit it.......
|
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 05:19 AM
‎10-09-2001 05:19 AM

I've done that, it works ok.  But it takes
30-60 seconds on our T1, so if you've got a slower connection you'll be waiting
a bit.  It works fine so long as the thread your looking for is titled
close enough to what your looking for, since you'd only be searching the subject
lines.

 

I'd look into using Outlook Express.  It could
use a lot of improvement, but it works ok for me.


--
Ben Maki
NDC Inc.

 

 


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Hello,
Mr. Middleton. Was thinking about that earlier so I tried google advanced
search, with restricting domain to this ng's domain generating
string,"lwpolyline site:discussion.autodesk.com". No hits. So tried, "lisp
site:discussion.autodesk.com". No better. Not very reassuring. Control group
(to preclude operator error) of "google site:www.google.com" and got back
about two thousand. So that's a puzzler. I wonder what would happen if
somebody were to hit that little "view all" link under the threads.......I'm
on a pentium 200....I'm kind of scared to hit
it.......
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Message 11 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎10-09-2001 11:14 AM
‎10-09-2001 11:14 AM

Ben,

Actually, Google can search for words in subject and inside
messages as well (just like Dejanews always could). You have
many options at advanced search page,

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

The problem with Google is, it doesn't get all the postings
from autodesk's server, it's been so for some years now
and autodesk doesn't seem to care. They could've improved
the quality of their link with Dejanews (now Google) since
it has such a wonderful search engine and they can't do
even the simplest kind of it right, but they just don't seem
to care.

Google's search is usually very fast. You can use
*autocad* as newsgroup name, or *cad* etc. to further
narrow the search down. 30 sec is _very_ unusual.

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Have fun, 🙂
Vlad http://vnestr.tripod.com/
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Ben Maki wrote in message
news:499B9697DCA095069D382B83AD5F810E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I've done that, it works ok. But it takes 30-60 seconds on our T1, so if
you've got a slower connection you'll be waiting a bit. It works fine so
long as the thread your looking for is titled close enough to what your
looking for, since you'd only be searching the subject lines.
>
> I'd look into using Outlook Express. It could use a lot of improvement,
but it works ok for me.
>
> --
> Ben Maki
> NDC Inc.
>
>
> "Tom_Brabant" wrote in message
news:f08a49c.4@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Hello, Mr. Middleton. Was thinking about that earlier so I tried google
advanced search, with restricting domain to this ng's domain generating
string,"lwpolyline site:discussion.autodesk.com". No hits. So tried, "lisp
site:discussion.autodesk.com". No better. Not very reassuring. Control group
(to preclude operator error) of "google site:www.google.com" and got back
about two thousand. So that's a puzzler. I wonder what would happen if
somebody were to hit that little "view all" link under the threads.......I'm
on a pentium 200....I'm kind of scared to hit it.......
>
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