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| (...) This sounds like a great idea to me! --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: "Yisra`el" vs. "Israel"
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| (...) OK, I think I get it now, thanks! :-) If the canonical way to write the name in the ISO-8859-1 character set is Israel and not Yisra`el, then Israel it is! :-) OK, the (URL) page now lists this in the I's instead of the Y's. --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
| | | | | Re: Lugnet for beginners
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| OK, I can't write long again (sorry) but I have some basic thoughts for this 'guide'. (All my opinions, I'm using should but it's not meant to force anything.) -The guide should be written in a friendly, one-on-one sorta tone. Not that the formal (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: "Yisra`el" vs. "Israel"
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| (...) errr... yes, sorry :) (...) well, you would never find it spelled like that in Israel, and rarly it would even be pronounced like that. Most cases (except people that take care to pronounce things exactly like they're supposed to be) it would (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
| | | | | Re: web posting
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| (...) ok, that does make it a bit more complex - but still, you could just have a pulldown menu so you could choose the "personality" you're posting under. Or just add another option to the user configuration page. :) Dan (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: "Yisra`el" vs. "Israel"
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| (...) Yeah, that's what he meant :P (...) It's not that it's incorrect. That _is_ how Israelis say the name of the country - in Hebrew. However, we never write it like that in English. The common and acceptable English spelling is Israel. This is (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
| | | | | Re: web posting
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| (...) Some people have news-by-mail settings for multiple e-mail addresses, and they want to maintain those from a single machine (or multiple machines). So that's why it asks you to reconfirm the address at the entry page (URL) each time -- because (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Dan, I'm assuming below that you meant lugnet.loc.il, because there is no group lugnet.local.yisrael... (...) On the entry page (URL) for lugnet.loc.il, it shows lugnet.loc.il- Yisra`el (Israel) My world atlas showed "Yisra`el" as the correct (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
| | | | | Re: web posting
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| (...) This is something I'd love to see :) You can get a new cookie sent to your browser by filling out your details again in the setup page, which means that you don't have to enter your name, email etc every time that you want to post. But (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) every (...) oh - and also remember our id for the "subscribe as mailing list" - I'm already logged in, it shouldn't ask me to ID myself again.... having to look up the confermation code each time is annoying... no? Sorry for the spam, :) Dan (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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