Search is worthless!

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Mike Matheny

In OutlookExpress, when I searched for a newgroup item, it would bring me to
the post in the actual list, with the surrounding threads, so I can see
exactly the relationship with my search and the thread. MS Mail opens a
seperate search box, that gives me NO IDEA of the relationship of the
searched item with the surrounding threads. I can't see the previous or
following thread.

MS, why would you change something that worked so well??

Oh well, off to find a replacement newsreader.
 
/Mike Matheny/ said:
In OutlookExpress, when I searched for a newgroup item, it would bring me to
the post in the actual list, with the surrounding threads, so I can see
exactly the relationship with my search and the thread. MS Mail opens a
seperate search box, that gives me NO IDEA of the relationship of the
searched item with the surrounding threads. I can't see the previous or
following thread.

MS, why would you change something that worked so well??

Oh well, off to find a replacement newsreader.
Click to expand...

Check out SeaMonkey - the browser/mail/news suite
Or Thunderbird, the mail/news separate that is often used alongside Firefox.

http://mozilla.org
 
Mike,

Maybe I don't understand what you are complaining about, but I'm not sure I
see your problem. While reading your message in Windows Mail, I typed in
"Worthless" in the Search box in the upper right corner, and it opened a
separate result box and the only message in it was your original, with all
the other replies to it. I expanded it and I could see the three (so far)
entries, exactly what I expected.

Are you wanting to see the entry and the surrounding (by date) other
messages or just the ones related to your search? If I am misunderstanding
the problem, let me know. Otherwise, I think it's a pretty good way to
search.

Tom
 
Mike,

Maybe I don't understand what you are complaining about, but I'm not sure I
see your problem. While reading your message in Windows Mail, I typed in
"Worthless" in the Search box in the upper right corner, and it opened a
separate result box and the only message in it was your original, with all
the other replies to it. I expanded it and I could see the three (so far)
entries, exactly what I expected.

Are you wanting to see the entry and the surrounding (by date) other
messages or just the ones related to your search? If I am misunderstanding
the problem, let me know. Otherwise, I think it's a pretty logical way to
search.

Tom
 
Tom Brown said:
Mike,

Maybe I don't understand what you are complaining about, but I'm not sure
I
see your problem. While reading your message in Windows Mail, I typed in
"Worthless" in the Search box in the upper right corner, and it opened a
separate result box and the only message in it was your original, with all
the other replies to it. I expanded it and I could see the three (so far)
entries, exactly what I expected.

Are you wanting to see the entry and the surrounding (by date) other
messages or just the ones related to your search? If I am
misunderstanding
the problem, let me know. Otherwise, I think it's a pretty logical way to
search.

Tom
Click to expand...

Maybe if you try to search for "Vista" ...
Maybe then you will see the issue referred to by Mike...

Eric
 
So, am I missing something about the way search works in MS Mail compared to
OE??
 
"Mike Matheny" said:
So, am I missing something about the way search works in MS Mail compared to
OE??
Click to expand...
As an example, I finally decided to use MicroPlanet Gravity as my
newsreader. When I do a search for matheny, it finds them all in a
search window - all I have to do is click on Go to article, and it
places me in the thread so I see all relevant posts, before and after
mine. I CANNOT get MS Mail to do this!! ( and at this point, I really
don't care - I can set up Gravity to work and look very similar to OE6 -
NGs at top, threads in middle, view pane at bottom)

Thanx Microsoft for giving 3rd party vendors a boost!
 
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