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Has anyone else noticed that you cannot use the search
feature here to go back more than about a month. Even
if the post is still here.

Try going to page 15 by manually entering 15 in the page
box. Pick any post you see (probably from early dec
2003.) Make sure the date range includes that date.

Try to search for that post and it won't come back.

If anyone knows a workaround for this, I'd like to know
it. I've been trying to find a post from mid-January and
I see I've been wasting my time with the search feature.

Robert
The MS search features are abysmal - it's a known problem

If you want to search these newsgroups - use Google Groups - apart fro
anything else, they have around 8 years of archives, while these groups
currently have only the immediate past month!.



--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"RobertB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:438b01c3feff$2a394de0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Has anyone else noticed that you cannot use the search
> feature here to go back more than about a month. Even
> if the post is still here.
>
> Try going to page 15 by manually entering 15 in the page
> box. Pick any post you see (probably from early dec
> 2003.) Make sure the date range includes that date.
>
> Try to search for that post and it won't come back.
>
> If anyone knows a workaround for this, I'd like to know
> it. I've been trying to find a post from mid-January and
> I see I've been wasting my time with the search feature.

Thanks. I just searched Google Groups and found what I
needed immediately.


Robert

>-----Original Message-----
>Robert
>The MS search features are abysmal - it's a known problem
>
>If you want to search these newsgroups - use Google
Groups - apart fro
>anything else, they have around 8 years of archives,
while these groups
>currently have only the immediate past month!.
>
>
>
>--
>Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)
>
>Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
>http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
>
>Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
messages to NG's
>
>"RobertB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:438b01c3feff$2a394de0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Has anyone else noticed that you cannot use the search
>> feature here to go back more than about a month. Even
>> if the post is still here.
>>
>> Try going to page 15 by manually entering 15 in the
page
>> box. Pick any post you see (probably from early dec
>> 2003.) Make sure the date range includes that date.
>>
>> Try to search for that post and it won't come back.
>>
>> If anyone knows a workaround for this, I'd like to know
>> it. I've been trying to find a post from mid-January
and
>> I see I've been wasting my time with the search
feature.
>
>
>.
>

(told you so!<g>)
Glad to have pointed you in the right direction.

Good Luck

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4a4901c3ff05$815cd550$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks. I just searched Google Groups and found what I
> needed immediately.
>
>
> Robert
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Robert
> >The MS search features are abysmal - it's a known problem
> >
> >If you want to search these newsgroups - use Google
> Groups - apart fro
> >anything else, they have around 8 years of archives,
> while these groups
> >currently have only the immediate past month!.
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)
> >
> >Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
> >http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
> >
> >Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
> messages to NG's
> >
> >"RobertB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message
> >news:438b01c3feff$2a394de0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Has anyone else noticed that you cannot use the search
> >> feature here to go back more than about a month. Even
> >> if the post is still here.
> >>
> >> Try going to page 15 by manually entering 15 in the
> page
> >> box. Pick any post you see (probably from early dec
> >> 2003.) Make sure the date range includes that date.
> >>
> >> Try to search for that post and it won't come back.
> >>
> >> If anyone knows a workaround for this, I'd like to know
> >> it. I've been trying to find a post from mid-January
> and
> >> I see I've been wasting my time with the search
> feature.
> >
> >
> >.
> >