Re: Request Nova BBS add easier-to-remember search URL links for Usenet article lookups

Retro Guy wrote on Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:43:37 +0000 :

This particular site (www.novabbs.com) goes back 3 years
or 100,000 messages per group, whichever comes first.

In the words of Grank, "ACK". :)

It's also not meant to be a google groups clone.

Understood.

I've added a 'Just find article' button to that site
(www.novabbs.com/SEARCH/search_nocem.php)
that simply tries to find the article and display it.

Thanks. As I said, anyone intelligent (such as most people
on this n.a.p newsgroup) will find a way to do what they need,
so it's nice that you added an easier way (as I hd already found
a way but I concluded most people are too stupid to find it).

 

I'd say it's almost perfect, the only extremely minor thing is that a dummy
can't tell there are two links (copy mid copy link) which are right next to
each other, since only spaces separate them so maybe a "comma" would help
dummies (e.g., copy mid, copy link) so that they know it's two links.

 
It's ok the way it is. People will figure it out, or not.

Understood. No complaints. You did what I had asked. Thank you,
on behalf of all the dummies out there, they can do it easily now.

AFAIK offhand, yours is the only reliable method although under certain
circumstances David's "Narkive" will also provide a link to a new article.

The reason it matters is people need a way to search deeper than their
particularly nntp server provides, and then they need a way to reference
the resulting permalink for the myriad clueless people who form the bulk of
the human population.

Thanks, on behalf of them.