Google Groups: TIP for being able to find your own posts

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Google Groups is a quagmire. Posts get lost very quickly. And if you only use normal words in the title of a thread it can be VERY difficult to find them later. Despite Google being the premiere search engine, on Google Groups its awful. Very unreliable & quirky.

Sometimes I want to be able to find a post/thread later.

By trial and error I worked out that if you use a UNIQUE word or two in the post title you can search to find it later fairly accurately.

For instance I titled a post way back: "HREF Linking Revisited (aka -- Houston, I have a problem.)" Typing into the Google Group search "Houston, I have ..." brings it the top of the list most of the time.

Similarly for: "Positive Assertions In One Sentence ... (aka Saying Succinctly What TW Is About ...)" searching on "Saying Succinctly" brings it up usually.

Just a tip if you ever need find your own initiated threads later -- use a weird word in its title.

Best wishes
Josiah

[Mark S.]

Also, you can use filters at the top to select "Posts I started"

Mark

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Ciao Mark S.

I don't see a "Posts I started", I do see (I'm talking web forum here) a "Show Activity" under "More Message Actions" on individual posts that will display the poster's activity. Is that what you meant? Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

In any case, I think the issue with that is active posters like you and me are still faced with the issue of sifting through the sheer volume of stuff we write :-).

Best wishes
Josiah

[@TiddlyTweeter]

M S.

Update: I found it, tx. "Topics I started" under the filters. But I don't think the filter holds when you then additionally try search within the displayed selection?

J.

[Mark S.]

Yeah. The big G doesn't seem to know how search should work ...