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(...) Hmm, this is curious. Looking through the dead-articles file on the server, I don't see a copy of your message having been bounced. Do you happen to remember what error message you received? My guess is that your newsreader gave you the error (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Article scoring
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(...) Ya, except that the one vote from the system will probably be implicit (rather than explicit), and applied only on-the-fly while calculating the final rating, otherwise every article would show with a score of zero and one mysterious vote. In (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LUGNET Channels (Was: Lugnet for beginners)
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(...) Wha?! You've seen CGI-generated pages from www.lugnet.com get *cached*? That shouldn't be happening... Could you provide a sample URL and I'll have a look through the httpd logs. --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Implicitly in the n variable; nowhere explicitly. (...) Well, it's nearly impossible to know the number of people subscribed to a given group, and it's even more impossible to know how many people have read and understood a given message. It (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RSS output format (was: Re: Lugnet for beginners)
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(...) don't (...) Oh... I think I get it now... So every person will have: *a Private channel that tracks groups or posts by your request. Only you can can see what these are. *A Public channel that also tracks groups or posts, but anyone can check (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Wow, that's cool! The geek in me is waking up... So basically what you said here, is that every message gets one vote from the system as a softner - and that the vote is always zero. Wow. Again, cool. -Shiri (a real geek at heart) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | LUGNET Channels (Was: Lugnet for beginners)
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(...) display (...) Another data item which would lend itself well to this is the links sidebar for each newsgroup page. In fact, just about any possible piece of data on LUGNET can be served into a channel -- member pages, thread info, even search (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Article scoring
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: [snip a lot of math] (...) where in here does it take into account how many people are in the group? Can you weigh in the number of people who are subscribed to that group? Since they are the ones most (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Article scoring
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Upon more reflection, I'm thinking that the "square-rooted-average" sum(V,1,n) w = ---...--- sqrt(n) isn't so great afterall. Its biggest plus is that it distinguishes nicely between sets of votes which have the same average and a different number (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 4950 Loader Dozer
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(...) Yep. My case of confusing the target of the initial insult is good evidence of that. I'll file it under "Whoops", and continue undaunted in my quest to become Larry-like in terms of misteaks. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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