Yes, if you click on the "Advanced search" link, it will explain how to
specify your search criteria. Among other things, it does say that boolean
operators like AND and OR are case sensitive, and need to be in CAPS.

Another alternative is to just use the '+' (plus) sign to specify your
criteria. Thus you could search on:

   +matthew +bracchi

Regards,

Andy

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Andy,
Interesting indeed.  I have done a little experimenting since your post.
If I
just search on "Matthew and Bacchi" I get many posts, with duplicates.
Here
is one particular selection, a single post that shows up twice.  Notice
how
it has two different confidence levels for the same posting, wierd.

76% Re: Expire Logs "C" Program for Tivoli 4.2 and Informix
(mbacchi AT BTV.IBM DOT COM) - Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:08:43 GMT
60% Re: Expire Logs "C" Program for Tivoli 4.2 and Informix
(mbacchi AT BTV.IBM DOT COM) - Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:08:43 GMT

But if I search for "Matthew AND Bacchi" I get fewer responses, and none
are
duplicates.  It appears to me that over the years I have been using this
search without the keyword "AND" in caps.  For whatever reason, the search

engine interprets this differently than I expected.  Does this appear to
be
normal behavior to you?  The strange part is though, why would the lower
case
word "and" cause the engine to spit out the same post twice?

If the maintainer does follow this discussion, maybe they would like to
comment.

-Matt
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