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How To Use The Search

The archive is meant to be simple to use, but also has powerful features to help you find exactly what you're looking for.  You can just enter a few words of what you're looking for or use the more complex search options.

Unlike most search services you're probably used to, complex Boolean searches can easily be made, something not even possible on Google (Google supports simple Boolean searches but not complex ones)  Also, this archive contains the entire archive of mASF posts which are only available through this web site, and does not restrain search results for older uASF articles which Google Groups does (max 1,000 results per search on Google).  Comments or suggestions about this searchable archive can be directed to Formhandle.

The search is case-insensitive (capitals don't matter). There is an implied AND between keywords.  Use OR between keywords if that's what you mean. To get faster results for searches, try to be more specific (by indicating at least 1 keyword in the subject and/or by limiting the date range) without going overboard and/or try combining words that are likely to appear together ("girl and boy" AND toy).  Being more specific and using positive and negative Boolean queries, without going overboard in specificity, will provide you faster, more accurate results.

SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT THREADED RESULTS: Building threaded results is currently database intensive and takes some time for general/broad searches or large per-page item results.   Sometimes it takes so long, in fact, that your web browser might time out waiting for the result.  If you want to use threaded results, for now (at least until performance is improved) be very specific about what you're searching for and choose 10 results per page instead of 25 or more.  What is meant by specific is try to fill in all the fields with what you think the article(s) will definitely contain (a keyword in the subject, a specific author, a limited date range, and maybe a keyword or 2 in the body).

Query syntax description, and complex Boolean examples

• Complex, nested Boolean searches are supported.  You can also nest additional logic in deeper parenthesis if you know how to do that to be more specific in your searches.
  e.g.: pickup AND artist NOT (average AND chump) OR (psycho AND basket)
  e.g.: pickup AND (guru OR (master AND (artist OR specialist)))
• You can also use Boolean shorthand. + and & are equivalent to "and", | is equivalent to "or", ! and - are equivalent to "not"
  e.g.: pickup & artist ! ("mad cow" & disease) | (ice-cream & cake)
• Quote-conversions and simple Boolean queries (+ -) are also supported.  Adding + before a word you want to match is not necessary, it's optional.
  e.g.: +cow -duck -"goose droppings"
• The NEAR Boolean operator is not supported (yet).
• When constructing a simple query there is an implied "AND" operator between keywords.
  e.g.: dog cat is internally converted to dog AND cat
  Likewise: +dog -(cat mouse) is internally converted to dog AND NOT (cat AND mouse). So, for example, that search is requesting all posts with the word "dog" but none that contain cat and mouse at the same time.  If you want to return results that contain NEITHER cat nor mouse, the search would be +dog -(cat | mouse) which converts internally to dog AND NOT (cat OR mouse).

Too complicated? Just type a few keywords relative to what you're looking for and the search will do the rest.

If you want to narrow your search to a particular author, enter their name or e-mail address in the 'author' field. A partial name is OK if you don't know or can't spell their full name or don't recall their email address (note that mASF members have email addresses hidden by default, so that is irrelevant in searches for mASF member posts). Also, you can just enter the author's name (with no other fields filled in) to retrieve every post by that author. If you want to filter out one or more specific authors from your search results, it's as simple as adding a NOT operator before the name. e.g. NOT failure (or just -failure).  For example if the the author's name is "Badass" and you are getting results which also include "NotBadass" and "BadassCream" then your modifed search would be +badass -notbadass -badasscream

Binary attachments within postings are not archived (just the textual portion).  Large postings (greater than 64KB) are now supported, but there is still an upper limit of about 300KB due to indexing concerns.  Most posts are less than 10K, and very rarely above 64KB.

About The Archive

The Archive is built from the articles submitted to this site's main forum, mASF (moderated Alt.Seduction.Fast), or very old articles from the public newsgroup, ASF (Alt.Seduction.Fast).

If you have submitted a post at any time in the past which appears in this archive, you must understand that this site has NO OBLIGATION to remove such content.  ASF posts were made to a resource available within the public domain and mASF posts (which are also not hidden from public view) are made with an agreement as to their use by the operators of this site.  That use does not include an obligation of later removal.  You are responsible for any content you submit to this site and if you wish to maintain anonymity then follow these guidelines:

• Don't make posts using your real name.
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