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(...) OK, that's what threw me. When the homepage splits into two different display venues, it'll still have one URL. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) Great, I just didn't want that idea to get lost in the mad rush to do something good less experiance people. (Grok, now there's a word I haven't heard a "normal" person use. I'm glad you do grok.) Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) to (...) He meant the opening page, www.lugnet.com. This was in response to Bram's suggestion of changing the homepage, and I quote: "Although it might make life a little more difficult for seasoned users, I think a simpler entry page might be (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, ya, now I grok what you're saying. Yah, we plan to do just that -- Suzanne has a few nice designs drawn up too, it's just a matter of making it happen. One thing we want to do is make CLSotW, the Spotlight stuff, and new member notices a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Sorry Todd. Let me try again. Supposition: Change the first/topmost page of www.lugnet.com to something that beginners might not be so daunted by, as Kevin Salm suggests, and Tony Priestman and Bram Lambrecht concer with. You decide that this is (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Which page is that? Do you mean the traffic page? (URL) and we could just come up like normal. Come up like normal? (...) You lost me here. :) What bookmarked link? (...) Oh, don't worry about space on the server. Could easily allocate 100 MB (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) think (...) Also, you could just mirror the current page that us seasoned veterans use to see what's going on, and we could just come up like normal. Well, we'll have to change our bookmarked link, but that would be it. How much space would (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree. I know I was overwhelmed by RTL back in 1996...and AFAIK, LUGNET today is much bigger than RTL was in 96. Although it might make life a little more difficult for seasoned users, I think a simpler entry page might be beneficial to new (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) d'Oh--Oops! Thanks for pointing this out! "Bad programmer, bad programmer!" A couple weeks ago I wrote a special newsreader that shows me live[1] streaming news. If I wanted to reply to a message, I'd hit 'w' and it would fork off a copy of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Heh heh, I was going to jump in and say thanks as well, and also check if anything new happened. I went to the local groups and searched, out of habit, in the Y section... ;) Just for a second tho'... -Shiri (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
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(...) Glad ta hear that. (Frank, glad I can count you in, BTW). But, Todd, why are all your posts creating new threads? This is off-topic yet it makes it hard to follow the thread... a bug maybe? -Shiri (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well -- hey -- better yet, what if the server said, "Hey, Hi! You seem to be using a machine that you haven't used before. Store a cookie with your info?" (With, of course, a "don't ask again" checkbox if you say 'no'...) --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Shiri Dori writes: [snipped part of list] (...) Count me in :-) If words come up that help newbies I'll be happy to add them to the Lexicon. Also if there are documents to be written I would be glad to help. -Frank (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) yay! thanks :) :) Dan (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
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(...) Well, if you think something is off-topic you can direct it somewhere else. You can do this by cross-posting to the group you want (simply add the group's name to the 'newsgroups' area if you're using web interface) and then write the group's (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This sounds like a great idea to me! --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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