Ah. I just happened to try to check the most recent posts for a particular user from their bio and I noticed that manually setting the ForumChoice to ALL will search across all forums until 300 results are found. It's not fast, but I wouldn't expect or really need for it to be. It's also not very flexible since it may find 300 results in Aer Lingus before reaching a forum that I'm interested in. It seems that setting the date filter reduces the data set significantly and can help make sure that the search gets across all forums for frequently used words.

If you want to experiment with this, save the HTML from the search page and change the form action to GET instead of POST. Setup and run the search that you want and then change the new URL to substitute ForumChoice=ALL for whatever ForumChoice is already there (such as ForumChoice=73). Let me know if you have any questions.

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[This message has been edited by jimbob (edited 11-03-2003).]