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MasterBip

November 2nd, 2001 02:39 PM

Why 4 character as least ???

just a little question ... WHY 4 char as least ??? there is a group called 311 and i want the videos from them, but i can't search it cause the name is to short ... any solution for that ??

Sorcy

November 2nd, 2001 03:10 PM

Find a band that has a better name... ;)

But all kidding aside: try "311 avi" or "311 asf" or "311 mpeg"...

I guess four characters is just an arbitrary choice to limit stupid search requests like "mp3" which would yield a gazillion results and thus bog down all the servants it goes through.

Moak	November 2nd, 2001 06:33 PM

yeah

gazillion results :)

Moak	November 2nd, 2001 06:41 PM

PS: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ighlight=three

Unregistered

November 3rd, 2001 09:02 PM

just put the "311" between brackets, thus typing :

(311)

should work fine, I use it to find Star Trek filenames, they are 3 caracters too ; TOS - TAS - VOY - DS9 - ENT - TNG...

try it.

Pete

Unregistered

November 6th, 2001 06:51 PM

Three eleven i tried it it works!

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