venting

[Ray]

... in response to Re: Thanks!, posted by Patrick on Sep 8, 2002

That’s strange. I tried it again, using the same search criteria that you did:

Searching by message for pig fart- “Error: Could not determine what you wanted to search on”
Searching by message for "pig fart"- “Error: Could not determine what you wanted to search on”
Searching by subject for pig fart- “Error: Could not determine what you wanted to search on”
Searching by subject for "pig fart"- “Error: Could not determine what you wanted to search on”
Searching by message & subject for pig fart- “Error: Could not determine what you wanted to search on”
Searching by message & subject for "pig fart"- “Error: Could not determine what you wanted to search on”
Searching by message for bad day- Same results as yours.
Searching by message for "bad day"- “Error: Could not determine what you wanted to search on”
Searching for compound usernames gives the same error message.

I took a closer look at this and found that before the error message is displayed, it actually does search the first archive and displays a count momentarily, so it seems that it is initially accepting the search string. It looks as if the problem occurs when it decrements the archive counter the first time. In other words, it never made it past archive 104. A blank screen comes up with the message displayed at the top. I also noticed on the searches that run that the whole screen is updated whenever the counters change, not just the count values as I would have expected.

I’m using IE5 if that makes any difference.

Ray

[Patrick]

... in response to Still same bug here, posted by Ray on Sep 9, 2002

Ray,

Thanks for the feedback on the error.  Would you mind clicking on the "Help" text near the top bar of your browser and letting me know the exact version?  I run 5.50.4807.2300 and can not duplicate the error.

The initial call from the primary search page when you enter the search phrase and select the forum and searhBy method is fine, but the search script then calls itself over and over again, each time searching the next archive and reporting progress.  For some reason, your browser is not returning the searchBy variable to the script when it re-calls it.

Is anybody eles seeing this problem???

[Patrick]

... in response to A little help, posted by Patrick on Sep 9, 2002

How you were searching?  You can select by-

message (the default)
subjects
messages & subjects
username

Thanks,  Patrick

[Patrick]

... in response to Can you guys let me know, posted by Patrick on Sep 9, 2002

I was able to duplicate the error with Netscape and found a work around.

[Ray]

... in response to I think it's fixed, posted by Patrick on Sep 10, 2002

Thanks Patrick! It seems to be working fine now.

Same goes for the Chargers too! :-)

Ray

[Ozymandias]

... in response to I think it's fixed, posted by Patrick on Sep 10, 2002

Forum   search-term   search-by           Result

Asian   pig fart      Message             6 results
Asian   "pig fart"    Message             no matches
Asian   pig fart      Subjects            no matches
Asian   "pig fart"    Subjects            no matches
Asian   pig fart      Message and Subj.   6 results
Asian   "pig fart"    Message and Subj.   no matches
Asian   Dave H        User Name           unknown
Asian   "Dave H"      User Name           unknown

It seems to be working in the 6 first cases - the function searches through archive 104 to 38 in all 6 cases.

In the last two, the search terminates after archive 97 or so. But I realize that this is probably not so much an error as a conscious decision. :-)

Browser: IE 6.0.2600.0000
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Best regards,
Arild

[Dave H]

... in response to Re: I think it's fixed, posted by Ozymandias on Sep 10, 2002

That's just the way I like it!

Dave ?

[Ray]

... in response to Unknown..., posted by Dave H on Sep 10, 2002

n/t

[Ray]

... in response to A little help, posted by Patrick on Sep 9, 2002

n/t

[Jimbo]

... in response to A little help, posted by Patrick on Sep 9, 2002

Quoted strings are ok if there is no space in them.  With a space in a quoted string I'm failing after archive 104 with the message "Could not determine..."

Jim

[Jimbo]

... in response to A little help, posted by Patrick on Sep 9, 2002

with Netscape 6.2.3

If searching with quotes it never gets past archive 104.

If searching without quotes it works ok.

Jim

[Humabdos]

... in response to venting, posted by kevin on Sep 7, 2002

specialist today at my Congresswomans office. He said he will call and see whats going on. He said they where processing to 4-8-02. I had E mailed them a few days ago and he already had the info in his hand so it sounds like they are on the ball down there.

Humabdos

[Howard]

... in response to I talked to an Immmigration, posted by Humabdos on Sep 6, 2002

Hum

I went through the same thing, back in the day.  At the time my Senator was the Head of the INS oversight commitee.  I went to his office, filled out a form and started to get some info.  I'm not sure that anything moved any faster, but it sure made me feel better having a local number to call

Hang in there Pard

Keep the Faith

H

[Ray]

... in response to I talked to an Immmigration, posted by Humabdos on Sep 6, 2002

See the post "Well sheet..." on the Russian board. A guy said Nebraska told him this a.m. that they were working on 4/11/02 petitions. Sounds about same as your info...

Ray

[Humabdos]

... in response to Re: I talked to an Immmigration, posted by Ray on Sep 6, 2002

Six dam months is to long! It only took eight months to get my first wife here and we where married in the Philippines.

Now sallie will get here in the winter time she will freeze!

Hum