--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > FYI-- I just verified that the Yahoo advanced search isn't > very accurate-- I hand-counted my posts from the beginning > of Sept.8th until now and the total is 39, not including > this one. However, if I use the Yahoo advanced search, I > get a total of 34, not including this one.
This is correct. Out of curiosity, I did my own hand-count of your posts on the Message List on the Web site after September 7, and it lists 40 of them through September 15. Five of these 40 *do not appear* on the list from the Advanced Search of your posts after September 7. Nor do they appear in the list from the Advanced Search of *all* posts on FFL after September 7. Somehow those five posts didn't get into the database or whatever it is the Advanced Search uses, even though they're right there in the Message List. I actually did a cross-check of your posts on the Message List versus those in the Advanced Search of all posts and of just your posts since September 7 to see which ones were missing from the latter two lists. The five missing posts are all from September 13, but they aren't *consecutive* posts of yours; they're scattered throughout the posts you made on that day in no apparent pattern. Bottom line: Yahoo Advanced Search is NOT reliable. Whether Yahoo's Message List is reliable, who knows? But it does list more posts than Advanced Search does, at least in this case. That's a big pain in the butt. It means that if you don't get the FFL traffic by email, to make an accurate count of your posts, you have to keep your own list (and until it becomes automatic, you're liable to forget occasionally); or you have to slog through the Message List (400-600 posts in a week) and count up the ones you made. Of course, we could just refrain from being obsessive about it and not get all bent out of shape if somebody goes over by a few posts.
