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To: Admin Moderator

Well, I’ve posted about 1,500 articles on FR to include the other FR handle I’ve had. The change in handle was approved by Jimrob. Only about a dozen or so of mine have been frozen out of all the threads that I have posted. I think I know what I’m doing. The search works with “no matches found” when other FReepers do not change the titles. (That’s the reason you mods do not like people changing the headlines to avoid duplicates) You’ll notice that the headline to this matching thread is different from the one that I posted, but he changed the original. He included the word “Mike”. You’ll also notice that someone posted the same source/article shortly after I posted my thread that was not locked-up, the last time I looked.


95 posted on 11/22/2008 1:21:57 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

To further add to my previous post, the search function on FR uses a Boolean logic.

I use a search “for all word” which is the FR default. In a Boolean search, it use AND, OR, NOT as search parameters. ‘For all word’ = AND as the parameter.

Meaning if a title to an article has has four words in it, all article that contain those four word will show up in the search regardless how to many words are in the searched articles. So looking for a 5 word title will also show titles that contain more words than than the original 5 in the search parameter that was found contained in the article. But if a poster omitted a word in the original title as what has happened here, and the AND search was used, the search parameter will not be fulfilled and the search will inform you as “article not found”.


96 posted on 11/22/2008 2:00:19 PM PST by Red Steel
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