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Re: Contributer Agreement v2
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:18:19 GMT
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[Trimmed .cad.dev.org.ldraw, we're way off topic for that group]
So, could there be an option on the web-interface for this? Like a checkbox for
"start a new thread with message"?
Then the web interface could automatically add some kind of X-header line to
back-reference the old thread, or maybe add text at the top of the message body.
Steve
In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > > ...But I would like to ask a favour of the thread
> > > starter in that case... give a URL to the anchor point of the new thread in
> > > a post to the thread being superceded. That way when someone comes back 3
> > > years later they can see the linkage.
> >
> > Very good idea!
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> Thanks!
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> Maybe even crosslink, with the first post in the continued tree pointing (with
> an explicit label) back to the root of the previous tree too.
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> > > (it's true that the searcher will no doubt find both threads if their
> > > keywords are picked with some care, but this is a small additional aid
> > > which should not take too much effort to do and will certainly not HURT
> > > things)
> >
> > And it helps future readers when the linkage is spelled out explicitly.
>
> Yes!
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