Manhattan Isles BBS: Help

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Introduction
If you need help, you came to the right place!
Please browse the topics at left, and look for the area where you are having a problem.

For example, if you are having a problem with Manhattan Isles Mail, click the link titled "Manhattan Isles Mail" to the left. It's that easy. If you still are having problems, or can't find a topic for your problem, click the link at the bottom of the page that says "Comments".

General Information

Our Goal
Is to satisfy you as a user with the most enjoyable internet experience possible. That was why we took this venture, because we believe that we can do a better job than some of our competition. So if you have any suggestions on how to make your internet experience better at Manhattan Isles BBS feel free to email us at [email protected]

Translation
Q: What does "Isles" mean?
A: Roughly translated in English, "Isles" means "island".

Manhattan Isles Mail

We, at Manhattan Isles, do our best to provide you with the highest of quality services associated with our FREE email. If you have any problems loging into your account, password problems, trouble sending mail, or if you have any other problems visit
Email Help.

Privacy Concerns

Your privacy while on Manhattan Isles is our top priority. We have created a privacy policy that is available for anyone to view. It can be found at Privacy Policy.

Search Tips and Hints

How to Search
To perform a search, simply enter the terms you are searching for and click on the "Search" button. For example, a search on

C++

will return all the sites that have the word C++ in them. Searches with multiple terms will automatically insert an "and" between all the terms, so that only sites with all of the search words in them will be returned. For example, a search on

golf clubs

will return sites that have both golf and clubs in the site's name and description. Sites on "tennis clubs" or "golf balls" will not be displayed (unless they also mention golf and clubs). If no sites are found that contain both terms, sites that contain either term will be displayed.

Phrase Search
Sometimes the order of the search terms matters. Using phrase searching can greatly reduce the number of sites that are matched by a search. For example, if you searched for

"Tour de France"

You would get only sites containing all three words "tour", "de", and "France" - in that order.

Quotation marks: Sometimes you can add characters to your words or phrases to more closely define your intentions for the search engine. For example, enclosing a multiword phrase in quotation marks tells the search engine to list only sites that contain those words in that exact order.

Plus and minus signs: If you type a plus sign (+) directly in front of a word, you are indicating that the word or phrase must appear in the search results (for example, Hotels +San +Francisco). Similarly, a minus sign (-) indicates that the word or phrase should not be included in the search results (Cars -Ford).

Boolean operators: Boolean operators include AND, OR, AND NOT, and parentheses. To work, these operators must appear in ALL CAPS and with a space on each side.

AND - Similar to the plus sign, AND indicates that the documents found must contain all the words joined by the AND operator. For example, to find documents that contain the words wizard, oz, and movie, enter wizard AND oz AND movie.

OR - Documents found must contain at least one of the words joined by OR. For example, to find documents that contain the word dog or the word puppy, enter dog OR puppy.

AND NOT - Similar to the minus sign, using AND NOT indicates that the documents found cannot contain the word that follows the term AND NOT. For example, to find documents that contain the word pets but not the word dogs, enter pets AND NOT dogs.

Parentheses - Parentheses are used to group portions of Boolean queries together for more complicated queries. For example, to find documents that contain the word fruit and either the word banana or the word apple, enter fruit AND (banana OR apple).

Title search - This feature enables you to restrict searches to the title portion of web documents. For example, typing title:Mars or t:Mars will retrieve all documents that have the word Mars in their title.