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  Re: Member "Set Lists"
 
(...) Oooo! We'd just need an accepted standard schema for set list information! 'Course, you'd have to keep the tab-delimited format around for anyone who's importing straight into Excel or something (which is I think how many people keep their (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Member "Set Lists"
 
(...) Good point. Hmm, what if the data was exported in XML... (...) Yea, the nice thing also is that if someone changes a column title, so that your program/script can't find it, your program/script can throw up a warning that apparently the data (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Member "Set Lists"
 
(...) I've got a couple scripts that parse that same file, but I never actually parsed the column headers since the column headings were a bit ... odd. They're multi-line and arranged such that they're human-readable, which, when you think about it, (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Member "Set Lists"
 
(...) Since there's a text "tab-delimited" version of the list, parsing the HTML to get the data is both wasteful and fragile. As for the idea of using the list titles to adjust for column updates, well, that's not a bad idea :) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: (Very) slow authentication of posts?
 
Hi Anders, you are right, I am not exactly happy about the turnaround time for new posts either, although there are multiple factors leading to the relatively slow posting behavior. You will realize that using email or NNTP for posts usually are (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)


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