quote:

---

1. Click on this link: http://www.maxminis.com/cs_search.asp

2. If you entered a City and State in your Member Profile, it will already be filled in. At this point you can just click on the "Search" button.

3. If you didn't enter a City and State in your Member Profile... Shame On You! Still, it's not the end of the world... Just enter the appropriate information into the boxes and then click on the "Search" button.

---

quote:

---

a. Spelling is important... If you know of an alternative setting for your city, you may want to search under that also. For example, Jacksonville, FL is commonly shortened to Jax, FL. State names are even worse culprits, they usually have several common spellings/shortenings.

b. Wildcards are your friends... % is a wildcard for the search program. What's a wildcard? As in card games a wild card can act like any other thing... in this case letters. You can use the percent (%) symbol to represent any extra characters. For example... most states are abbreviated by using the first two letters of their name. Florida is abbreviated as FL. Oregon as OR. Obviously, there are exceptions to this, but here's where wildcards really work well. If I want to list everyone in Florida, I can just use FL% as the state name and because of the wildcare, it will list anything that begins with FL. How about if I use M%E as the state name. In this case it will pick anything that starts with M and ends with E. That's the state of Maine. Now we're cooking with gas!

c. If you want to search for all members in your state, leave the City and Country fields blank. The same olds true if you want to search for all the members in your Country (leave the city and state fields blank).

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by lalato

Try keeping the City and Country blank and enter CO% in the State field. That will yield far more results than 1. It will also yield a few in Connecticutt, but mostly just Colorado.

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by Felagund

quote:

---

Originally posted by lalato

Try keeping the City and Country blank and enter CO% in the State field. That will yield far more results than 1. It will also yield a few in Connecticutt, but mostly just Colorado.

---

Yep, that's what I did. Just one. No Connecticutters, either. And if you capitalize the "C", you don't get anybody.

---

quote:

---

kmfdm Boulder CO
SpickedchainDave Fort Collins CO
mabb Colorado
Zoeskyfarm Edmonton confused Canada
meme4tunef kenmare Co Kerry Ireland
Stig kenmare Co Kerry Ireland
KnightKD CO USA
CharlesMarkley Broomfield CO USA
Sparhawk Broomfield CO USA
COS_Vader Colorado Springs CO USA
rhane Colorado Springs CO USA
shemnon Colorado Springs CO USA
StarKiller66 Colorado Springs CO USA
wargamer Colorado Springs CO USA
Shiatis denver co USA
smagumpf Denver CO USA
soulcatcher Denver CO USA
Dwak Northglenn CO USA
Murex Parker CO USA
sienar Thornton CO USA
TheDungeoneer Colorado USA
xuthal Boulder Colorado USA
Dogboy Centennial Colorado USA
adidasdarkpony Colorado Springs Colorado USA
Angus Of Bane Colorado Springs Colorado USA
Eliminator53 Colorado Springs Colorado USA
Lantis Denver Colorado USA
hrglen94 Divide Colorado USA
forthright4 Longmont Colorado USA
slayer1 Palmer Lake Colorado USA
Ghendar Connecticut USA
Mrs. Rune Connecticut USA
PrvtSticky Connecticut USA
Runelord151 Connecticut USA
minimage1971 new britain connecticut USA

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by Ghendar

A very useful tool..........

A lot more useful is everyone was required to list their state. [:(]
This limits the utility of this tool quite a bit.

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by lalato

quote:

---

Originally posted by Ghendar

A very useful tool..........

A lot more useful is everyone was required to list their state. [:(]
This limits the utility of this tool quite a bit.

---

I've been pushing to make the Location fields mandatory since forever. I hope this is true when we switch to 2.0.

--sam

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by lalato

Say What?!!?

Here's the list I get when I enter CO% in the State field and nothing else. It doesn't matter if I capitalize or not, I get these results every time.

---