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Is there an easy way to find in the archive any posts you or others have written? Like if I wanted to find all the posts I wrote in? a certain group or if I wanted to find all the posts another member has written? Thank you! Maria
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This is odd. I can search Istanbul and get results, no clue if it is all or some of the posts with this word, Maria does not find anything. It may be that the search is finding the word only from the heading and not the body of the text as all the messages found a search of Istanbul have the name in the heading or title of the post. Put your name in the heading such as From Maria: and see if this allows a search of what you have posted that way. Since you group is apparently not public, you cannot use Google to search the contents of messages on your group. Seeking only comes up once in a search of that word on your list and I suspect that word has been used many more times in the posts of your group.
I hope that this helps.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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On Sat, 28 May 2016, HR Tech via Groups.io wrote: Is there an easy way to find in the archive any posts you or others have written?
Like if I wanted to find all the posts I wrote in? a certain group or if I wanted to find all the posts another member has
written?
Thank you!
Maria
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This has been VERY high on my personal wishlist for a long time. It's a glaring hole, especially with respect to Yahoo.
On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 5:08 AM, HR Tech via Groups.io <m.conway11@...> wrote: Is there an easy way to find in the archive any posts you or others have written? Like if I wanted to find all the posts I wrote in? a certain group or if I wanted to find all the posts another member has written? Thank you! Maria
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There's not a simple way that I'm aware of. If you're an owner/moderator with access to the Member list, you can go to the member name, then Activity History, and search for Accepted Message. A kluge at best, but works for now.
If you and/or the other person always sign the same way, you could search for that in Message View, but it would also show any quotes that contained it. (Search won't find them in Thread View unless it's in the title.) I think Mark has plans to add a search by poster.
Duane
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Msrk has already stated in beta that this is a bug and will be hard to fix.
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On May 28, 2016, at 1:52 PM, David P. Dillard <jwne@...> wrote:
This is odd. I can search Istanbul and get results, no clue if it is all or some of the posts with this word, Maria does not find anything. It may be that the search is finding the word only from the heading and not the body of the text as all the messages found a search of Istanbul have the name in the heading or title of the post. Put your name in the heading such as From Maria: and see if this allows a search of what you have posted that way. Since you group is apparently not public, you cannot use Google to search the contents of messages on your group. Seeking only comes up once in a search of that word on your list and I suspect that word has been used many more times in the posts of your group.
I hope that this helps.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@...
On Sat, 28 May 2016, HR Tech via Groups.io wrote:
Is there an easy way to find in the archive any posts you or others have written?
Like if I wanted to find all the posts I wrote in a certain group or if I wanted to find all the posts another member has
written?
Thank you!
Maria
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Maria, Is there an easy way to find in the archive any posts you or others have
written? Mark mentioned a method in beta@, but it isn't documented anywhere else that I know of. /g/beta/message/7668It turns out that the search box has tricks we don't know of, including an ability to search for specific kinds of things using keywords. So for this purpose the keyword is "poster:" followed by the person's email address. Which, somewhat ironically given recent threads in beta@, requires one to know that person's email address. So to find my messages try poster:shals2nd@... Oddly, this trick only works in the search box in Messages view (or Expanded Messages View), not Threads View. That's another one of those search idiosyncrasies I'd like to see fixed. Shal
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LOL. Of course you do realize, Shal, that your email address was coyly hiding behind a fig leaf there. ;) J
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J, LOL. Of course you do realize, Shal, that your email address was coyly
hiding behind a fig leaf there. ;) Indeed I knew it would be. It's part of that irony. As I've said before about the fig-leaf, it probably wouldn't take anyone very many tries to guess what's hidden. Fortunately in this case one needn't go to the effort: knowing the full email address isn't necessary to convey the "how to" instruction. I've seen stronger masking techniques, such as showing only the first two and last two characters of the email user name. With only "sh...nd@" to work with the guessing would be more difficult. The downside is that the more the site masks the more likely it is for two subscribers to end up with the same masked name. Shal
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thank you all! Hopefully the search by author will be fixed. I think i should have specified that i was thinking of it from a mods POV so as our admins moderate posts they will want to be able to search for posts by the member's email address. But also members will want to be able to search for their own posts so they can keep tabs on threads etc or pull up their own posts. I do like that as group owners in Y! we can search by author and that when you are viewing a post on the web it suggests other posts by this member. Maybe something to chime in about over @beta Maria
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Moderators can find all posts by a member right now, by looking in the member's activity log. It of course will be more convenient (and also available to all group members) when the search by author bug is fixed. Bug the information is available to mods now.
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On May 30, 2016, at 10:18 AM, HR Tech via < m.conway11@...> wrote: thank you all! Hopefully the search by author will be fixed. I think i should have specified that i was thinking of it from a mods POV so as our admins moderate posts they will want to be able to search for posts by the member's email address. But also members will want to be able to search for their own posts so they can keep tabs on threads etc or pull up their own posts. I do like that as group owners in Y! we can search by author and that when you are viewing a post on the web it suggests other posts by this member. Maybe something to chime in about over @beta Maria
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Maria, But also members will want to be able to search for their own posts so
they can keep tabs on threads etc or pull up their own posts.
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Maybe something to chime in about over @beta Interesting idea. Perhaps the Activity History tab, currently available to moderators through each subscriber's page in the Members list, could be available to the member him/herself through their Subscription page. That would give more than the history of posts, and for that reason could be useful to the member even if a proper search-by-subscriber were available. I do like that as group owners in Y! we can search by author and that
when you are viewing a post on the web it suggests other posts by this
member. On the To-do list. Shal
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Unless I am not seeing it... it doesn't look like you can click through to the member's post even from the activity log that shows all the member's posts. ? Maria
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When Mark fixes the "search by poster" or "see more messages from xyz" bug, everyone will have access to everyone else's messages, as they do in Yahoo. I would be against giving members access to their own activity history.? J
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Maria, You don't get just the posts, that's true. You get everything the member did. (I assume your apostrophe in "member's" was correctly placed, and you were referring to an individual member's activity log, not the overall activity log for all members.) I just don't see any problem here. Mark will add the functionality that Yahoo has to see all posts by a given member, and we'll be done. J
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I wouldn't mind. It would be especially useful in freecycle groups. Members can search for anything offered , wanted or if it has already been taken. And according to some group guidelines the member itself ?would need to know when they ?last ?submitted the same offer or wanted so not to repeat ?the post in the same month.? .? ?
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Subject: Re: [GMF] Is there a way to find all the posts you or others have written?
When Mark fixes the "search by poster" or "see more messages from xyz" bug, everyone will have access to everyone else's messages, as they do in Yahoo. I would be against giving members access to their own activity history.? J
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J, It of course will be more convenient (and also available to all group
members) when the search by author bug is fixed. What bug is that? Search using the "poster:" keyword works now, and is available to all group members. The big problem is that it is completely undocumented. Along with any other keywords the search box may already allow. The lesser problem is that it requires knowing the poster's email address. Shal
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Vickie, Every member will have access to every one of their posts, just like they do in yahoo, after Mark fixes the search bug. There's no need to give members access to their complete activity log for that and I would be *strongly* against giving them that, so much that it would almost be a deal breaker for me. I can see another fight coming on. Ask Mark to make it an option. That would be fine. Lol
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On May 30, 2016, at 3:54 PM, vickie via < vickie_00@...> wrote: J,?
I wouldn't mind. It would be especially useful in freecycle groups. Members can search for anything offered , wanted or if it has already been taken. And according to some group guidelines the member itself ?would need to know when they ?last ?submitted the same offer or wanted so not to repeat ?the post in the same month.? .? ?
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On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 05:43 pm, Shal Farley wrote: What bug is that? Try doing a search on "By Shal Farley" and nothing will come up. Mark said he was working on this but that it was turning out to be a hard bug to fix. Has that gone by the wayside in favor of using the "poster" keyword? I would not describe having to know the email address as a "lesser problem" and I wouldn't call this an acceptable solution. It's inferior to what yahoo provides. J
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J, Try doing a search on "By Shal Farley" and nothing will come up. Mark
said he was working on this but that it was turning out to be a hard bug
to fix. Oh, I see. I suppose he meant that the search normally includes just the message body content, and he'll have to do some work to get it to include the Display Name (which comes from the sender's profile info, if any, rather than from the email message itself). Has that gone by the wayside in favor of using the "poster" keyword? No, I wouldn't think so. That may be why the poster keyword is undocumented. My guess is that's sort-of an "internal" thing, if anything perhaps a piece of some future "Advanced search" user interface (where it would be a fill-in box rather than a keyword). I would not describe having to know the email address as a "lesser
problem" and I wouldn't call this an acceptable solution. I agree there, and I think Mark does too. He characterized it as an interim way to get the results you need today. I meant "lesser" in the sense that it is harder to find out that the poster keyword exists, and if you don't know that then knowing the member's email address is moot. Maybe "secondary" would have been better word or just "other". Shal
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Thank you all. As a moderator, I need all those things listed that it seems Mark is working on vis-¨¢-vis searching the message archive by author/ email address etc ( with actual links to the messages) or simply search results like the normal search function brings up. As a member of groups that I am not an admin on - it would indeed be nice to have a way to find my own posts. Maybe it'll just be via the advanced search option/ search by author when/if that gets fixed. Or as Shal suggests maybe an activity history tab/log? Maybe a listing of "MY POSTS" in one's profile? Visible to the member only?
Maria
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Shal Farley