• Anything ‘published’ on the web is viewed as intellectual property and, regardless of whether it displays a copyright symbol or not, is therefore copyrighted by the originator. The only exception to this is if there is a “free and unrestricted reuse” statement associated with the work.

    In order to protect our members and TFL from possible litigation, all members must abide by the following new rules:

    1. Copying and pasting entire articles from another site to TFL is strictly prohibited. The same applies to articles from print or other media, and to posting photographs taken of copyrighted pages or other media.

    2. Copyright law provides for “fair use” of portions of a copyrighted work. You can copy no more than a SINGLE paragraph from the article to your post (3 or 4 sentences at most).

    3. You must provide a link to the article along with the name of website. For example: ww.xxx.yyy/zzz (The Lower Thumbsuck Daily News).

    4. You must provide, in your own words, a brief summary of the article AND your reasons for believing it will be of interest to TFL members. Failure to do so may result in the thread being closed or your post being deleted as a “cut and paste drive by.”

    5. Photographs and other images are also copyrighted. "Hotlinking" of images (so that it appears in your message) from other sites is also prohibited unless you own rights to the image. If you wish to share an image, provide a clickable link to it.

    Posts that do not follow these new guidelines will be altered or deleted by staff. Members who continue to violate this policy may lose their posting privileges at TFL.

    Thank you for your cooperation and your participation in TFL, the leading online forum for firearms enthusiasts.

Short searches.

E

Ed Dixon

New member
Why aren't two-letter "words" permitted in the search feature? Some gun models have a two-number designation and it would help in finding references. Since noone spells these out in the threads, doing so in the search wouldn't help. There may be a way around this I'm not aware of. Hey, this is not a criticism. In fact, I'm asking the question for someone else. And he's often confused and surly, so there you go. Not me. I love this place.
 
This thread is currently directly above one in which members have noticed a slow down of some kind with TFL lately. If we were to decrease the allowable number of characters in a search from three to two, the resulting slowdown would be noticed by pretty much everyone, pretty much all the time! The three character minimum helps to balance the load on the server, allowing a vast majority of users to view TFL with little or no delay.

You do have a valid concern, Ed. (Or at least your "friend" does) ;) Please trust that this is the best balance that can be arranged.

-Dave
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top