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Subject: [ts-7000] yahoo group dead search functions
From: "Tom" <>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:42:03 -0000
Hello group.

I'm a group member.  I've been an embeddedArm developer and group member for 
about a year.  I frequently try to refer the group and less frequently 
contribute content.

There's relatively high quantity of good quality content in the group.

...but the Yahoo Group toolset seems brain dead.  My major restriction in using 
the group is Yahoo's (or my) inability to search reasonably.

I can't make advanced searches at all.  In multiple 10-15 minute sessions over 
the last year I couldn't manage to search for all messages with "foobar" in the 
subject.  I end up giving up.  I know the answer to my question is in the forum 
but end up googling the world in general.

Is it my cockpit error or is the Yahoo Group Search terminally broken?

>From the help/sidebar, it appears that there is an "advanced search bug" that 
>migrating this group will fix.  Of course I couldn't find a description of the 
>bug.  Anyway, in 5 minutes of surfing the chatter I'm suspecting this is old 
>news to the moderators and/or group.

My questions for anyone (and/or moderators) is:
 1. any belief migrating this group will make life better?
 2. if so, is there any action other than nagging yahoo to make this happen?
 3. what's the moderators position on "migrating"?

I had some private email with a moderator to get his take privately before 
posting to the group, but it didn't seem to get much traction.  My guess is 
there have been multiple "flame wars" in the group in
the past.... but as I couldn't search for them I don't know for sure :)

anyway, I thought I'd throw it out there for a hopefully flameless discussion 
and/or solution


thanks in advance
tom campbell
www.DinkumSoftware.com



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