or better yet
could we just secede from yahoo & take our country with us
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002
<orc@o...>" <orc@o...> wrote:
> alternatively
> can anyone say if it might be possible to hotwire our yahoo
data
> base to a proper search engine
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002
> <orc@o...>" <orc@o...> wrote:
> > jack craig &al
> >
> > > > Do you (or anyone else) know the number of the original
> > post
> > > > concerning this? I'm struggling to find it.
> > >
> > > In this regard, would some sort of index be helpful?
> > > I have the same problem when trying to find an old
posting.
> >
> > great idea & it certainly would be helpful
> > tho it seems a bit like belling the cat
> >
> > an enormous undertaking
> > & besides
> > who is there that would do it
> >
> > for making a decent index is a time consuming & mostly lost
> art
> > but doing it here would be an even more daunting job than
> usual
> >
> >
> > for example i recently had occasion to search for alflga
> >
> > thanx to our ridiculous bp search engine
> > it took me over 20 separate dips to reach back to message 1
> > & i got a total of 16 hits
> > but most of them required still more careful scrutiny
> > before proving to be marginal or irrelevant to my own interest
> >
> > & that doesnt even take into account any well meaning but
> > nonstandard abbrevs like algafl flalga alagafla flalagaflla etc
> etc
> >
> > or nonabbreviated mentions
> >
> > so anyway i could post these fruits of my play somewhere
> > & maybe i should for starters
> > since alflga is alphabetically first by one reckoning
> > & in case this leads us anywhere
> > 927 1340 1498 2396 2398 2400 2401 2402 3605 3606 3607
> > 3608 3609 3612 8456 8462
> >
> > but note that this list is still completely unannotated
> > & it leaves anyone else who is interested in this topic almost
> > completely in the dark anyway
> > not to mention if they were interested next in any of the other
84
> > american multipoints
> > or the 161 world class multipoints
> > etc etc
> >
> > or yikes what about common offpoint topics
> > like just ordinary borders
> > or claves
> > or prawns
> >
> > or perfectly topical topics that are not normally coded
> > like say references to your book or any other source
materials
> > etc etc
> >
> >
> > on the other hand
> > a simple & nonexhaustive list of any particularly useful or
> > seminal messages might be more easily compiled
> > but that would still require revisiting all the many thousands
of
> > messages just to ferret out even only the best of these
> >
> > or we could make a random collection by everyone just
adding
> > the results of their own searches whenever it occurs to them
> > but that would be raggedy too
> > & still very much hit or miss at best
> >
> >
> > however
> > i do believe the present almost impossible reality isnt really
so
> > bad at all for such devoted seekers as ourselves
> > who thrive on almost impossible challenges anyway
> >
> > indeed it seems to me that bp as it is presently constituted by
> > cosmic happenchance actually mimics very well the reality of
> > trypointing on the ground
> > especially for those who prefer to deliberately handicap
> > themselves anyway for that extra challenge & reward
> > by going for example without maps or gps or compass or on
> > moonless nights etc
> >
> >
> > so in a nutshell
> > having spent years wishing for the perfect data hub myself
> > i now believe that wishing things were easier or trying to
make
> > them easier
> > even if it were possible to do so
> > may actually run counter to deriving the greatest possible
> > satisfaction in this our already truly awesome game
> > of search & enjoy