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Re: Search options
Good afternoon... Over the years I've learned that when a site's search engine fails that Google can many times overcome. For example...assuming that you are searching for "super glue",..a Google
By Jim Coffee · #1645 ·
Re: Search options
Hi In Beta Groups.io <http://groups.io/>, J_Catlady posted this about a year ago: Mark has already posted that. A quote: "Here's a technical document discussing relevance in terms of the software
By Frances · #1644 ·
Re: Search options
Ary, As you've heard in beta@, the unfortunate truth is that the search feature in groups.io does not provide exact searches. I believe what is happening is that the index of the message content used
By Shal Farley · #1643 ·
Re: Search options
That's exactly the problem. It returns many things in addition to the exact match.? J
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #1642 ·
Re: Search options
In general, even using quotation marks will return close matches in addition to exact ones. That's the problem. The reason is that Mark is using a search algorithm based on common word roots. So a
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #1641 ·
Re: Search options
Ary, using quotation marks around the phrase works.?Like "easy instructions" or "photo album". This second retrieves photos album, photo album, photo albums. Frances
By Frances · #1640 ·
Search options
Hi all, Is there a way to search the mail database for an exact match? I cannot find it. Searching for something in a couple of thousands of mails is terrible now, unless I do something wrong. When I
By Ary · #1639 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
Frances, you beat me to it! I was going to volunteer to write up this topic for the wiki, since others were so helpful in answering my questions. Let me know how I can help -D
By Deborah Fisch · #1638 ·
Photo Album Sorting
We just moved two groups from Yahoo into one group at groups.io. The move went very well. Part of the move included 120+ photo albums. On the Yahoo platform it was possible to sort the albums by "Most
By Jim Coffee · #1637 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
Yes, you can't belong to a subgroup without being a member of the parent/main group. Duane
By Duane · #1636 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
Hi Shal, Just trying to piece the bits together for the wiki and I have a question. The?chickens @ avian.groups.io is the parent group) and?birds is the subgroup. You said "Also, if you allow
By Frances · #1635 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
Frances, Your wish is your command. This is a volunteer organization, after all. ;-) Shal
By Shal Farley · #1634 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
Hi It would be great if someone took this valuable info and added it to the GMF wiki. Frances
By Frances · #1633 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
Deborah, That's controlled by a Privacy option available in the subgroup Settings: o Listed in parent group, publicly viewable archives o Listed in parent group, archives viewable by parent group
By Shal Farley · #1632 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
I'm going to have to change the subject line of this thread, clearly! A subgroup IS the answer! Thank you, both Duane and Shal. So if I understand correctly, a group CANNOT see a subgroup's archives -
By Deborah Fisch · #1631 ·
Re: Easy instructions for new mdmbers to create passwords?
Shal - I just transferred a group that contains a lot of older guys. They're at least marginally computer literate, but not real sure of themselves. These are important members because these are the
By D R Stinson · #1630 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
Deborah, No, not if the bird subgroup has its archive access limited to bird members. Presumably not both ways, that would mean everything posted to bird would be available to chicken. I've heard of
By Shal Farley · #1629 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
Hi Deborah, The only way for non-members to (directly) contribute to a group's messages archive is check the "Allow Non Subscribers to Post" box in the group settings. Messages sent to the group's
By Shal Farley · #1628 ·
Re: Two groups interacting when a subgroup is NOT the answer?
Duane, thanks for your suggestion. I had considered it, but there's the matter of the bird group's existing archives - eight years of material about swallows and bluejays, etc. We need to keep those
By Deborah Fisch · #1627 ·
Re: what's up with this? "left via web," "resumed membership via web"
Duane, But the "goodbye" email doesn't include (or isn't supposed to include) a "resume membership" link. I tested it last night, and it only includes options to ?either *cancel* the resignation or
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #1626 ·