Can anyone find the original brian thread?

[rickman]

I can't seem to find it in search.

:)

Anyone?

\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=67&threadid=3934#78453\here}

Do you mean the one with the title "I'm a mum but I stil got Brians?" That one's from way back, maybe 2002 or so. Is the the archive search function still not up and running?

Nope - can't see it.

Called "I'm a parent but I've still got brians"

How did you find that? Thank you. :)

LotusEater - did you find that on search or did you have it bookmarked?

I knew the title but still couldn't find it.

rickman - I thought I was invisible

SG - I'm just good

I did a search for brian not brians.

Sorry LE - your post wasn't there when I posted again though. :o

Wow, who was KS? did they say really nasty things? why do people get their messages withrawn?

The strange thing is if you search on the exact title it doesn't find it.

OK SG - I searched on 'brians' in the title and the name 'parent'

I'm sad that I have a good memory for such things

I'm just annoyed cos I thought the search was working properly now.

Having problems searching for other stuff too

When I put brians in the title field and nothing else, I get it. I'm not cheating honest. It's at

www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=67&threadid=3934

but I see you all knew that already. must keep up....

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Hi Rickman,

It wouldn't find it from brian the way it's set up now. If you want to find words starting with a group of letters, you can put them in followed by a character. So it would find it from brian or bria* in this case.

This will only work if you supply at least four real letters before the and it will only work if the asterisk is the last character in a word. If you tried to search for c it would treat it as a literal search and probably not find anything. We imposed that limit as it doeesn't make a lot of sense to search for all words that start c (and so on.) Four letters seemed like a fair compromise.

The search package we have now does all sorts of fancy schmancy stuff but we want to let it settle down in a fairly simple form before unleashing anyone on the more advanced stuff.

Regards,
Tech

OOh tech, can I hijack quickly to ask if a chat thread has been deleted, is it definitely gone forever?

We probably have a copy, but in general yes it's gone from the site.

Could I email you? It's definitely a classic

sure, go ahead