[Alffe]

The search term you specified (to) is under the minimum word length (4) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.
If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific


Every time I try to use the search feature I get that message. What is the deal with four words????

(I'm not really crabby I just sound that way)

[Chemar]

looks like a puzzle for Doc to try to solve for ya Alffe


hehehehe
nope you dont sound crabby

[Pamster]

Take out the "To" and see what comes up, it won't accept the search string with less the four letter apparently.

[moose53]

Yeah, BUT, "PMS" is only 3-characters -- to those who haven't been 'initiated' it is anyways !!

HAR-HAR-HAR!!

Barb

[Alffe]

LOL! I just love this place!!!

ok.... so how do I search?

[moose53]

Alffe,

It looks the *Powers That Be* have defined the search-term character length as '4' ... which means that if you wanted to search for "PMS", you'd search for Premonster Syndrome instead.

Or "ALS" -->> Lou Gehrig's

Or "MS" -->> either Multiple Sclerosis or Sclerosis

so ...

find another way to say what you're looking for.

Just cause the door's locked don't mean you can't climb through the window. (Did I ever tell you about the time that my 5-foot, 200+ pound Mom did that and got stuck in the window?? ... I digress:

if there's a computer involved, there's always a way around it.

Barb

PS: Oh, another thing you might want to try is hop over to http://www.google.com and enter:
site:http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com ALS (or whatever your search-term is).

[Alffe]

Ok thanks everybody...I'm going to try again...and won't use the advanced search this time.

Right to choose

right to life

if I leave out "to"....well, let's see what happens.

The search term you specified (to) is under the minimum word length (4) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.
If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh....longer. Ok.

Right to choose a dignified death.

Nope and that was six words. LOL UNCLE!

[kimmydawn]

I hope we can get this changed, because many times we do search for less than four letter words (which i guess the search terms have to be words that are four letters or longer)...good examples already being stated...PMS, MS, ALS, PD, etc.

Also, I'd like to see the minimum message be taken out. Sometimes I just like to answer with a smiley and it won't take it, or an "OK", or a quick "yes".

Thanks, Alffe, for bringing this up!

KD

[DocJohn]

This setting has been changed to allow 2-letter searches. It is customizable because smaller-letter searches create larger message indexes, and searching larger indexes takes more server load. So we'll keep an eye on this to ensure it doesn't negatively impact server resources.

Thanks,
John

[Alffe]

Thank you! I wonder if I have the nerve to try it again.

The search term you specified (a) is under the minimum word length (2) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.
If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific


LOL! What can I say....I'm old! LOL and I don't really want to know anyway! LOL