"Yes, Mary Kennedy, you try and fix things with the BIG boss!"

Kris Baker wrote:

"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message
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I compared Kris Baker's returns (58 indeed) to mine of 48. I have found
the difference. His search returned titles in block letters and those
with subtitles. They make the extra 10. I conclude that this happened
because I use a "strict" rule match from the options and Kris probably
used a "loose" rule match.


Francis A. Miniter


I used the default of "strict", also. Title (no quotes) and author's last
name.

The results of a compilation site like addall.com are dependant
upon the response time from each of the servers it's pulling data
from. If one's too slow, it may sense "0 results" there.

Right now, I get 57 listings (obviously some dupes because some
sellers list the same book on multiple sites):

Abebooks - 15
AbebooksUK - 5
Alibris - 13
Amazon - 1
AmazonCA -1
AmazonUK - 2
Antiqbook - 2
Biblio - 12
Bibliophile - 2
ILAB - 2
Choosebooks/ZVAB - 2

Kris (definitely a she)


Oops. Sorry.


Francis A. Miniter

"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message
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Kris Baker wrote:
Kris (definitely a she)
Oops. Sorry.


Francis A. Miniter

No problem. I'm married to a guy with one of those "could be
either" names....and when I was getting Sears tool catalogs,
he was getting Victoria's Secret catalogs. He was happy.

Kris

On 30 Apr 2006 12:51:42 -0700, wrote:


That certainly shakes my confidence in
the party in this group who continues to
maintain that addall.com has all the
Abebooks.com listings. You have
offered proof, so I hope that person
involved is big enough to post an
apology for misinforming others.

You insufferable eejit, I just checked AddAll.com and there are *71*
copies listed. In case you can't count that high yet, Palm-job,
that's ten times seven plus one. Granted, a few of those are
duplicates, but even so.

Perhaps you can cease this whiny passive-aggressive crap and call me
out by name next time, assuming you have the stones. Which, on the
evidence you've presented thus far in your less-than-illustrious
"career," you very well may NOT.

I'd call you a "poltroon," but it's such a silly word.

"Bud Webster" wrote in message
...

Perhaps you can cease this whiny passive-aggressive crap and call me
out by name next time, assuming you have the stones. Which, on the
evidence you've presented thus far in your less-than-illustrious
"career," you very well may NOT.

Golly, webster challenges palmer to an all out flame war to the death. Kind
of like Burr v. Hamilton, but in control top panties. Don't start till I
make popcorn.

I've noticed that on a fairly regular basis -- perhaps one search out of 40
or something like that -- ABE doesn't respond to addall inquiries in a
timely manner (or to be quite accurate, I sometimes don't see any ABE
listings; I don't actually know if ABE was really asked). When I see NO
abebooks listings at all in an addall search, but a reasonable number of
others, I just do the search again immediately and generally get the ABE
listings on that try. It's no big deal.

Chris

Bud Webster wrote:
On 30 Apr 2006 12:51:42 -0700, wrote:


That certainly shakes my confidence in
the party in this group who continues to
maintain that addall.com has all the
Abebooks.com listings. You have
offered proof, so I hope that person
involved is big enough to post an
apology for misinforming others.

You insufferable eejit, I just checked AddAll.com and there are *71*
copies listed. In case you can't count that high yet, Palm-job,
that's ten times seven plus one. Granted, a few of those are
duplicates, but even so.

I think Kris Baker had the thing right
about it being a server problem. As
I stated I DID make a correct search
and came up with nothing, regarding
the SOTI listings.

Perhaps you can cease this whiny passive-aggressive crap and call me
out by name next time,

Shoe fit you all too well, eh? No, rather
than resorting to the name-calling that
troglodytes such as yourself clearly
prefer, I favor the "smoke-'em-out-of-
the-woods-and-then-hoist-'em--high-
by-their-own-petards" approach. Glad
to see it worked so well on you, Mr.
Webster.

assuming you have the stones. Which, on the
evidence you've presented thus far in your less-than-illustrious
"career," you very well may NOT.

I'd call you a "poltroon," but it's such a silly word.