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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) I agree that was probably the problem - unfortunately from a NNTP viewpoint it's not that clear. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.admin.general)
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Note that if you use these links, LUGNET gets referral dollars (with no increase in what you as the purchaser pay for the books) which is a Good Thing. And these seem like neato books too! However, just to play devil's advocate, if one wanted to be (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: It's time to get rid of my Technic Collection
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Please don't post auction announcements in this group. The lugnet.technic group is not for commerce, only for discussions. Fredrik (FUT: lugnet.admin.general.) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Just a small mistake... (Was: Re: Please, just end the entire thing! )
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Hi Erin, (...) Funny, I thought you were a male, then after Todd's post, i was thinking, "oops..." This has happened to me with other people and with myself (ie, other people thought I was a male or were unsure :) ... Oh well, I guess that's just (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Just a small mistake... (Was: Re: Please, just end the entire thing! )
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(...) Someday I really have to change my name to a more masculine spelling (In other words; Todd, I'm male.) Erin (Soon to be Aren) Windross -- (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Simon, Try to cut these guys a little slack. They've put a whole lot of work into getting Kidlug started with not a tremendous amount of positive feedback. They're also somewhat younger and also relatively new to LUGNET. -Tim (URL) timcourtne (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Besides just having the final vote result (score), it would also be nice to know how many people have actually voted. Another very useful feature would be to be able to sort posts in different ways. Right now they are just listed in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think it's possible that .promo's charter isn't clear. Perhaps it should be stated that it's not a place to promote one's own items, but rather to talk about TLC's promotional items. -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Why has this been cross-posted to lugnet.promo - it's completely irrelevant. I call it SPAM. Carbon 60 P.S. Added lugnet.admin.general (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Does this make you read or avoid them? :) Would it be possible to have a thread view that showed the 'best' articles? E.G., I don't have time to read through all of the religious debate on off-topic, but I wouldn't mind reading through some of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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