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To: steplock
If you don't know an article was written, you can't use key words to find it. I use FR for my breaking news and so would not know of an article until I saw it.
13 posted on 03/09/2003 10:38:27 AM PST by ClancyJ
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To: ClancyJ
If you don't know an article was written, you can't use key words to find it.

Sure you do. That's why they wand the TITLES to remain EXACT.

14 posted on 03/09/2003 10:41:55 AM PST by ET(end tyranny) (Heavenly Father, please embrace, and protect, our Pres., our troops and those of our true allies.)
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To: ClancyJ
To explain better - if I am just looking at FR to get the news, I look at the sidebar titles, I look at the current listings and that is it. I am not trying to post an article I am reading the news. Now say there was an article "North Korea Backs Down" that had been posted early that morning. Say at 12:00 I come in and look at sidebar, look at current articles and I see the articles that are there. I won't see the North Korea article. Yet is someone happens to duplicate post and it appears when I am reading - I will then see it.

I did not know there was such an article until I see it in current listings or sidebar. How am I to think to search for keywords of an article I know nothing about - I am just reading - not trying to post the article. Think you are assuming I am trying to post an article. Of course, I can check keywords when posting because I have the new article in hand.

But, for readers of news items, they will not see an article that does not appear on the sidebar or in current listings. Might be nice to have a link to a running index of daily articles posted so that news readers can flip over and see if anything of interest.
17 posted on 03/10/2003 9:14:54 PM PST by ClancyJ
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