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(...) I agree with some of the philosophies about needing a place for off-topic things to spill, and needing a seperate place for them, etc, but I have to admit that I'm starting to wonder if there might not be a need to somehow restrict the posting (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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While I think many of the posts have been somewhat useless (not even entertaining!), there are still many posts that either make me think, or entertain me, so I'm all for keeping the group around. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Message-ID -> Article number
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[redirecting to .admin.nntp] (...) I would really hate to see NNTP Message ID's floating around in HTTP URLs. A workaround is simply to use a standardized NNTP URL format -- for example: news://lugnet.com/qr...eos.uio.no That's postable as-is. Or, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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(...) Yea, that's a real pain. Sometimes I go to the web interface to follow a thread since you see the whole thread there, but then when the thread gets too big, it becomes worthless to follow it on the web interface because it's hard to keep track (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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(...) There are reasons to keep a thread in multiple groups, see below. (...) Problem with requiring it on ANY cross posting is the discussions which legitimately belong in two or even three groups. (...) Because of how the web interface works (and (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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