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08 Oct 02 - 03:17 PM (#799060) Subject: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GUEST HELP! Can't find DIDDLE-Y SQUAT! whats wrong??? |
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08 Oct 02 - 03:19 PM (#799061) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: MMario I'm not having any problems - what are you looking for and how are you looking for it? |
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08 Oct 02 - 04:34 PM (#799100) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: katlaughing a super search for "diddley squat" comes up with four mentions in four separate threads...:-) |
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09 Oct 02 - 01:06 AM (#799329) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GUEST,.gargoyle It appears to be dependent upon which server you have logged through:
Open all four at once -in different windows - place the information in the search box and try a race.
loki.mudcat.org Its fun AND educational too.
Sincerely, |
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09 Oct 02 - 12:00 PM (#799536) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: Bill D I wonder where the expression "haywire" came from? |
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09 Oct 02 - 12:12 PM (#799545) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: MMario "Haywire is a compound of the words hay and wire, originally simply denoting wire used to bale hay or straw. The term is first recorded as a noun in a debate in the Canadian House of Commons (1917), so it is a Canadianism or, since it appeared soon thereafter in a U.S. publication, a North Americanism. We find an earlier (1905) attributive use in the phrase hay wire outfit, a term used contemptuously for poorly equipped loggers. What lies behind this term is the practice of making repairs with haywire. Haywire is found in other contexts with the general sense "makeshift, inefficient," from which come the extended senses "not functioning properly" and "crazy."" |
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09 Oct 02 - 01:01 PM (#799576) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GUEST Has the search ever been anything other than "not functioning properly" and "crazy"? |
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09 Oct 02 - 01:05 PM (#799580) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: MMario I rarely have problems with it - and I search a LOT |
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09 Oct 02 - 01:24 PM (#799599) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: jeffp It's usually been effective for me as well. |
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10 Oct 02 - 09:33 AM (#800287) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GUEST,Don I have often been frustrated when the search function fails to find material that I know is there. I remember seeing something about a time delay before material in threads may be found by the search function, but that does not explain all of the failures I have encountered. I have finally concluded that Mudcat, wonderful though it is as a website in general, has the world's worst (or at least the world's most inscrutable) search function. |
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11 Dec 02 - 12:27 AM (#845108) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GutBucketeer I'm not getting any results from forum searches. I've tried "Jug Band" "Twin" "HearMe" and other keywords. Things that I know are there. I'm using Netscape 4.77 and don't know what I'm logged into. JAB |
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11 Dec 02 - 12:32 AM (#845110) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GutBucketeer I just tried it again using IE5.5 , for "twin" and also "folk". Neither produced any results. JAB |
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11 Dec 02 - 12:47 AM (#845115) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GUEST,Q Put jug band in the filter and you will get several threads. Set for one year. Do the same with folk. Twin- What specifically? I use Lyric and Forum search only if I have a song title in mind. |
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11 Dec 02 - 10:30 AM (#845158) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: wysiwyg And after the hay is all nicely and neatly baled, and stored, then there's USING it. Often the bale is broken up in the loft to be dropped down in sections ("flakes") through chutes in the floor, to the critters below. Once you snip the haywire, it goes haywire (sprongggggggg, like an autoharp string broken while playing), especially if you used it for "temporary" fencing and it was stretched REAL tight. The piled-up snipped sections snarl up the footing in all the loose hay where the bales are kept.... it becomes invisible till you find yourself flat on your face in it. 'Cuz you are busy trying to feed the critters, not focusing on picking up every last piece every time... like broken guitar/harp/banjo strings tend to get loose in your house no matter how hard you try to wind them up into a nice safe circle so no one gets hurt on 'em. Like that, see? ~Susan |
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11 Dec 02 - 02:42 PM (#845382) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GutBucketeer Guest, Q: I've been around Mudcat for a long time, and know how to use the filter, and search the forum and the DT for what I want (both simple and advanced). Your examples illustrate the problems I am having. When you use the filter topic like "jug band", or "folk" produce results. When I use the search function for the same topic nothing is found. Hech when I search for any topic nothing is found. This occurs both at work and at home, and when I'm using IE, or Netscape. What happens when you try to search the forum (Put your search topic in the Lyrics & Knowledge Search box found in the upper left part of your screen, toggle off the DT search, and click on the Search button). Am I the only one haveing this problem, or are others experiencing it too? JAB |
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11 Dec 02 - 02:50 PM (#845392) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: MMario forum search appears to be down. I haven't gotton a result all day. |
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11 Dec 02 - 03:24 PM (#845414) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GUEST,Q Yep, there is an up and down problem. When I answered Gut Bucketeer, everything (I think) was working. Now the DT is OK but no Forum results. Getting most of what I was looking for with the filter, but it is a nuisance not being sure. |
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15 Dec 02 - 05:52 PM (#847938) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: Stewie For many days, I haven't been able to find threads I know are there. This morning, I put 'Travelin' Man' in the search box and came up with zilch in the forum. This is a thread title and the words occur dozens of times in the thread. I was able to find it only by pulling up my postings and doing a search. --Stewie. |
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15 Dec 02 - 06:09 PM (#847946) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: GUEST,Q Some of Travelin' Man (pulled by filter) at 30848: Travelin' Man I wish someone would post here and tell us what is wrong and if it will be fixed. The filter will get some things but discussions are showing up that are duplicating previous ones. Can a time interval be set for a search on postings? |
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15 Dec 02 - 06:36 PM (#847960) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: Jeri Joe reported the problem to Max in the Help Forum 3 days ago. |
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16 Dec 02 - 12:08 AM (#848091) Subject: RE: SEARCH FUNCTION HAYWIRE! From: Richie I've been having the same problem finding threads, Richie |