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Besides what Michael said, I also think this just mucks up the user count. Call me a data-nut, but I'd like to see a count of actual registered users rather than entities that just want to plug a product or post something really stupid.
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I just did a search of the Lounge for "awasu" but almost all the hits are on Taka Muraoka's sig.  It would be really swell if the search ignored sigs since they aren't really what a person is looking for when doing a search. Could you mark the sig text with a tag (maybe <sig>...</sig> ) which would be invisible on the board, but which the search could use to know what text to ignore?
I know it would be impossible to do this for existing posts, but maybe for the future...?
--Mike--
Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
Actual sign at the laundromat I go to: "No tinting or dying."
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The sigs and messages aren't stored separately so it's impossible at the moment to search one and not the other. Sorry
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Chris Maunder
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I know they're not stored separately, that's why I said "I know it would be impossible to do this for existing posts". But the sig is in a separate textarea, and I assume it's submitted separately from the message text. (If not, then never mind) If that's the case, then there must be a line somewhere before the message goes into the database that looks like
ContentText = ContentText + '\n' + Sig
Could you add this just before that line:
Sig = '<sig>' + Sig + '</sig>'
so the search code could know where the sig is, and ignore it?
--Mike--
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Michael Dunn wrote:
I know they're not stored separately, that's why I said "I know it would be impossible to do this for existing posts".
OK - assume I've not had a great deal of sleep lately.
I could definitely wrap the sig in the XML tags but comments search is done using the Full Text Indexing in SQL which, AFAIK, can't be told to index only a certain section of a text column.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
OK - assume I've not had a great deal of sleep lately.
Sounds like sig material. 
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Not if you want to be able to search for it though. 
Chris Meech
It's much easier to get rich telling people what they want to hear. Chistopher Duncan
I can't help getting older, but I refuse to grow up. Roger Wright
I've been meaning to change my sig. Thanks! Alvaro Mendez
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Chris Maunder wrote:
the Full Text Indexing in SQL which, AFAIK, can't be told to index only a certain section of a text column.
Come on Chris, are you going to let M$ and BillG tell you what you can and can't do? Don't let the Borg keep you down.
Or... better yet, go get some sleep
--Mike--
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Kosh reminded me of some of the prima-donna programmers I've worked with. Knew everything but when you asked them a question; never gave you a straight answer.
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It would also be interesting if, by marking sigs in such a way, a forum mode that excluded them could be implemented. Low bandwidth / dialup users may appreciate such a feature...
Shog9
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The ones who've already given in...
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Michael P Butler wrote:
Especially sigs with graphics in - they annoy me the most
Hush! Hush! Hurrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! 
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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Whenever I try to access the latest articles page, I get the following riuntime error:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01c2' <br />
Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment: 'objArt.GetArticles' <br />
/info/latest.asp, line 62
...and no articles are displayed.
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All fixed. Move along. Nothing to see...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Would it be possible to start a list of people who can help authors that do not have english as their first langauge.
I sometimes read articles by authors that i'm sure would be good if they were written a little clearer.
How about starting a list that people could sign up to with their areas of expertise, programming languages and their level of english. Then we could help out Indian, chinese and taiwanese authors that submit articles that are hard to read?
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we have the CP authors for that i think
Don't try it, just do it!
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How am I supposed to do that? Suppose I found a typo in one of my own articles and wants it corrected. What should I do? Mail the head honcho himself with the updated HTML? 
[edit]I don't have a suggestion. I want one. I am in the correct forum for that, right? [/edit]
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He is the painkiller. This is the painkiller!
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[Edited]
I suppose you could mail one of the editor and ask them. You get the list here.[^]
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
Support Bone
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Now I just have to pick one to harass!
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He is the painkiller. This is the painkiller!
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Pick Nish. I mean, he has nothing better to do while waiting for his page to load.
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
Support Bone
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Nick Seng wrote:
Pick Nish. I mean, he has nothing better to do while waiting for his page to load.
I had to laugh Nick - I gave you a 5 too
But seriously, what makes me mad is how everyone else in Trivandrum is so passive about this speed issue. I have tried posting threads on various forums - but the answer is usually to go for a high speed leased line (I think a 512 Kbps line comes at USD 1500 a month - which is way way beyond what about 99.9999% of Trivandrum-folks can afford).
Trivandrum sucks for programmers! Absolutely and totally!
Nish
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (coming soon...)
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel)
Shog's review of SLASMC [NW]
This post was made from Trivandrum city, India on a 0.0001 KB/s net connection
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I'm sorry to hear that.
We just got broadband over here, so before that, I was on dialup too, so I feel your pain. Maybe if you start a petition or something similar? Would that help?
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
Support Bone
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Nishant S wrote:
I think a 512 Kbps line comes at USD 1500 a month
 Thats alot 
Matt Newman
If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls
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The person's name that edited your article is at the very bottom of the page. Harass him or her!
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Aaah, there it is! I looked for it at first, but I didn't expect it would be down there in such small font. Then I have a suggestion; make the editor tag larger and put it at the top of the article. That's where I start looking for such material, just as I would when I look in "real" articles. Last in an article is usually just a bunch of conclusions and references..
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