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Re: Set number server macro?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:45:06 GMT
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Reference syntax:
lsr:<number>
Which the lugnet web-news-interface could interpret as a hyperlink to the
search engine in pause:
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=<number>
If multiple matches come up, it's more the problem of the poster to clarify
than the search/reference engine.
(side question: is it possible to pass multiple parameters into
pause/search?)
But lsr probably stands for many things besides Lego Set Reference and
Logical Shift Right.
Steve
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:26:44 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, main@appstate.edu (Thomas Main) writes:
> > Is there anyway to prefix a set number with a special character so that
> > the LUGNET server could interpret it as a link to the set database?
> > That way people could just post set numbers and have them linked to the
> > set database without having to copy and paste the url into their
> > messages.
>
> You mean like some special character sequence/syntax that would allow you
> to refer to a particular set simply by its number or somesuch? That's
> something I still don't have any good ideas on how to implement. One
> reason it's never been implemented is that you'd need to choose some
> special character sequence that won't ever come up elsewhere, and another
> reason is that you'd need some good way to differentiate between two
> different sets with the same number. The release-year can sometimes help,
> but there were once four sets numbered #1974 (back in '89).
>
> Notwithstanding, it's probably true that 98% of all set numbers will map
> perfectly into a uniquely specified set-entity.
>
> Do you have any particular syntax in mind? And how text-paragraphs and
> text-tables would be reformatted?
>
> I think it's a very difficult problem to solve in general (in a way that
> would "get it right" every time) and I think it's much more likely that
> the URLs for sets on the website will change to something more sensical
> than that a text-transmogrification filter would be put into place.
>
> (Don't get me wrong -- I think it's a neat idea -- I've given a fair
> amount of thought to it in the past -- but it's not something that can
> just be added easily.)
>
> --Todd
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