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Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos navis
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I remember contributing to threads in the past that now I am not able to find using the search tool. Did you delete them under some ridiculous "right to be forgotten" law?
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Foržon we sealon efestan žas Easterlican žing to asmeagenne and to gehealdanne, žaet we magon cuman to žam Easterlican daege, že aa byš, mid fullum glaedscipe and wynsumnysse and ecere blisse.
Posts: 1443 | From: Between Broken Bow and Black Mesa | Registered: Apr 2004
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RooK
1 of 6
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You are correct: the search tool imbedded in the Ship's software sucks so much it has an event horizon.
I suggest trying Google with site-specific parameters.
Posts: 15274 | From: Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth | Registered: Nov 2001
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
Shipmate
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Ach, the Ship's BBS has been running on three ancient ZX80s rescued from Simon's loft and a reel of bell-wire since whenever. It's what makes it different.
You know of course where the Organ Fund is...
[ 20. November 2014, 06:34: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
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Might as well ask the bloody cat.
Posts: 17938 | From: Chesterfield | Registered: May 2001
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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If there was a "right to be forgotten" rule, there would be a whole lot of threads and posts that would disappear. Sadly, most peoples sorry history stays around for everyone to mock.
It is worth bearing in mind that the current incarnation of the board software is 10+ years old. Most commercial sites would have been replaced or at least radically updated twice in that time, utilising all of the best and most efficient search facilities and techniques.
The ship does not have the money to do that. The software is old, dated and creaky (like some of the shipmates). We just have to live with it, until someone wins the lottery and donates a pile of the money to the ship.
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Posts: 18859 | From: At the bottom of a deep dark well. | Registered: May 2001
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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You can find threads in Oblivion if you know the approximate date of the last post. You will probably have to look at several pages, but you can usually find it.
Moo
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Posts: 20365 | From: Alleghany Mountains of Virginia | Registered: May 2001
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
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One of the Admins goes into Oblivion periodically and throws some of the older threads overboard so it's possible that the thread you're looking for got ditched. It's back to 2010 at the moment and heading towards 500 pages, so it may be nearly time for another tidy.
Tubbs
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
You know of course where the Organ Fund is...
Unfortunately, the Organ Fund donation site is one of the areas that is old, dated and creaky.
If you click on the link to pay by credit card you get an error message. It's been that way for quite some time.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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Simon is a bit old school, and prefers you to personally deliver him the bags of money.
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passer
Indigo
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Rooted in the past, clinging to memories of better times, resistant to change, governed by an unresponsive autocracy, and always short of money. That's the Church for you.
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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Poor as hell, and subjected to nasty comments from random people who could make things better but prefer to take potshots--that's the Church for you.
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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In The Styx at the moment, we have one thread complaining that stuff has not been upgraded, improved and kept up to date, and another one saying "Why have things changed, why doesn't everything stay as we remember it used to be."
Just like the church.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Simon is a bit old school, and prefers you to personally deliver him the bags of money.
I'd be happy to if he pays my airfare.
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