Searching using commom words?

[ClintMA]

I want to search the forum for posts about the "use-livecode list" (because I've stopped getting posts from there and I want to see if the list is down or if the problem is on my end). I didn't use the hyphen in the search because the hyphen would indicate to ignore the following word. But the search engine disallows all three words as being too common. Is there a way to do this?

[richmond62]

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Something odd going on.

the search engine disallows all three words

Which search engine would that be then?

I'm fair-to-middling this is a . . . Buh, Buh, Buh . . . T post.

[bogs]

When using a search engine to search the site as Richmond suggests, if you want to get any mention of a term, make sure that site: is first in the line. This tells the engine to go to that site, and search it. For instance, here is a comparison with 'site:' and without 'site:' done on startpage (google results without google, but with privacy) -

To 'site'...

...or not to 'site:'....

While not a strict necessity for all search engines, it does remove ambiguity for the engine.

[jacque]

The mailing list is separate from the forums and there is no list content here. The list is archived on nabble:
http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/

[ClintMA]

Thanks for the responses to my post.

Richmond62:

Which search engine would that be then?

That would be the built-in search tool for the forum. (I always forget that I can use outside search engines. Thanks for the reminder.)

jacque:
Yes, I am aware that the two entities are separate. I was trying see if an announcement had been made that the use-livecode list was down . I have seen such announcements in the past, but didn't remember where they had been made. This forum seemed like a likely candidate, which is why I was trying to search here. Thanks for the reminder that I could go to napple directly to see if the list was active.

[anmldr]

I just found this and it looks very useful.

viewtopic.php?t=31504

Linda