Newbie trying to figure out searching

03 Oct 23: One server has been relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address in the meantime. I wrote some additional tunnel code running separately to handle this. When the server is engaged the connection is 5600+ days uniform (since around 24 July 2008). In the unlikely case I disengaged the server because of some problem the retention is 1200-3800 days depending on newsgroup. If you experience any issue please let me know.

29 Nov 23: Because of encrypted and "obfuscated" flood mass posted by few nzb websites and newzbin-like communities using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic, since posts are disguised in such a way, that users must use the satellite ecosystem (whish is not a part of Usenet) exclusively to download them, when the website disappears - the encrypted scattered posts just eat usenet providers' disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Legible posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.

08 Aug 24: After being unchanged for many years the search service communication protocol had to be updated a few times in part to resolve a server side set feature limitation and properly handle trial searches on the relocated server. The searches themselves are not affected and it looks like the work is now complete.

15 Mar 25: It looks like the search service is currently down as there are no pings. The other server is no more on starlink, but the search requests are still routed and the access to it is through the first server, since it is safer, but the direct access is no problem if this will be a repeated issue. The connection will be restored or server restarted as soon as possible.

16 Mar 25: One server is currently still down, the other server was reconfigured and already connected directly, so the search service is running with minimum possible retention gaps.
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arsby
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Newbie trying to figure out searching

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On my 15 day free trial, trying to see what UE search can do.

I want to search for posts of any subject that were in alt.binaries.erotica during the last 2 days, and were between 300MB and 600MB, omitting posts from a poster called yencbin. Is there a way to do this?
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NoNo
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Re: Newbie trying to figure out searching

Post by NoNo »

Well obviously there is only 4 fields in the search options:
Subject, Author, Groups and days/dates
Author could be set to "^yencbin"
Groups could be set to "alt.binaries.erotica" and days/dates to "<2"
The problem is that I think Alex did not allow the subject to be just "*" like for "any" subject or left blank in case of a negation in the Author field.
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arsby
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Re: Newbie trying to figure out searching

Post by arsby »

Thanks for your reply. I was hoping that there might be some advanced search options. I guess there aren't any.
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NoNo
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Re: Newbie trying to figure out searching

Post by NoNo »

Heh, maybe Alex will comment on this.
Well, perverts allways find a way :mrgreen:
I, myself keep up-to date a virtual adult group containing that a.b.e and it seems most interesting stuff come from the same bot, i.e robo@c*ck.com with UHQ in subject.
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Re: Newbie trying to figure out searching

Post by alex »

as to size you can just use quick filter or create a size or more complicated filter in the filter editor and apply it to the search results view.

collections are not always clearly defined so filter by size doesn't always work, even as could be easy for server to prefilter by size as it is now, it can be done on the client size, the result what you see is the same.
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arsby
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Re: Newbie trying to figure out searching

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NoNo wrote: I, myself keep up-to date a virtual adult group containing that a.b.e and it seems most interesting stuff come from the same bot, i.e robo@c*ck.com with UHQ in subject.
alex wrote: collections are not always clearly defined so filter by size doesn't always work, even as could be easy for server to prefilter by size as it is now, it can be done on the client size, the result what you see is the same.
NoNo, I search for UHQ in a.b.e. all the time.

Alex, with the understanding that the selection won't be perfect, how can I select only those sets where the size is between 300MB and 600MB.
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Re: Newbie trying to figure out searching

Post by NoNo »

Oh that one is easy, and it will work as intended in the search results:
Just put in the Quick filter bar in Size: "300000-600000" or "307200-614400"
You can create an initial filter for the search results so it always appears like that and toggle it when needed.

For that quick/filter to work in others view you need to create a composite filter or else you'll end up with unwanted size collections...
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