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  Randomly generated acronyms (was: Re: The commonfolk's FAQ)
 
(...) Yeah.... plus, people wouldn't encounter acronyms directly on the front page anyway! It's the newsgroups where they appear frequently. Still, I'd get kinda annoyed if there was an acronym on every news page. Maybe on the news' front page? (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: The commonfolk's FAQ
 
(...) That's sounds pretty cool. I would go even farther and have a randomly selected acronym appear on any newsgroup page on LUGNET, say at the top or something. It would be just like the taglines that used to appear on BBS's in "The Old Days". By (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: The commonfolk's FAQ
 
Hi Eric! Don't apologize for getting off-track - I was just confused whether you misread my post, or I misread yours. ;-) (...) Wow! I like that. Once it got coded, it would be no extra work to post it "every week" or whatever. I think that *in (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: The commonfolk's FAQ
 
Crossposted to admin.general (...) <snip> While I can't take credit for Duane's great idea this is even better than what I was thinking. I was thinking just a post with an allready defined Acronym once a week to keep the visability of the page up in (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Weird error trying to load lugnet main page?
 
The last thing I updated was some security-related stuff but that was downloaded and installed by Windows Update - I have Windows 98 installed here. -- Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde "Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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