Re: webbased newsreader
From: Sven Berg (SvenBerg_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/21/04
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:07:02 -0800
"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
> "Sven Berg" <bergmaus@gmx.de> wrote in message news:237cc3b3.0412201156.45a2813a@posting.google.com...
> > Where do I find instructions of how to do a boolean search "x OR y OR
> > z" in http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
> > ? Its help section does not explain. Or is there an alternative
> > newsportal as up-to-date as this one (*not* google with its delay of
> > several hours), where I could do so?
> >
> > Thanks for referring me to the right place, Sven
>
>
> I'm not sure that even Google Groups is doing OR correctly any more.
I am glad it is. The findings in Google are lacking a period of traffic of 3
to 9 hours, though, while communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups
only suffers from a delay of a couple of minutes.
> Unfortunately the Microsoft Community newsgroups only does
> implicit AND. There is no explicit Boolean syntax, in particular
> no OR and no NOT.
Thank you for confirming the regrettable truth.
> Unfortunately, OE's Find dialog deals only with exact string searching
> (e.g it is not capable of even AND logic). However, since in order to
> do any searching at all you have to download the messages,
which is the reason why I preferred to stay with webbased online research
that can get through *all* postings without reproducing indigestible data
masses on my harddisks.
> Actually by using some of OE's other features it is possible to do
> more than just exact string searches but it is not very convenient.
> For example, to do AND searches what you could do is use the
> Message Flag feature and then a second pass only on messages
> which had been Flagged as a result of the first pass.
Hey, this is an excellent tip! I'll certainly use it for other, more
restricted purposes. Many thanks for your detailed and clearing outline in
the rest of your posting, too.
Sven
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