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Re: What's your current project?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 3 Oct 1998 00:38:25 GMT
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Tom McDonald <rocketman@familyradio.com> writes:
> With regards to rtl's FAQ we should leave it alone so we don't irk someone.
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> But your idea sounds okay. One FAQ indigenous to each ng.
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> Todd, since I know virtually nothing about servers (other than they serve
> information), how do you keep the url of an FAQ persistent in/on an ng so that
> people don't have to inquire as to its whereabouts? I realize that this could
> easily be done on the lugnet.com/news/ page that displays the major groups, but
> not everyone will see that page will they?
The standard thing to do would be to post them periodically to the group
they represent.
There is an 'Expires:' NNTP header for setting something to persist on the
server for a long time, and a 'Supercedes:' header for posting a new message
which supercedes an earlier message.
Then a script could simply cull the FAQ's from groups and put them up on web
pages in a nice automagic way.
> A bigger problem is FAQ's for the
> lugnet.loc.* ng's, if they need FAQ's at all.
They probably don't, then again maybe not all groups do, but it seems safe
to let them pop up as needed/necessary... It shouldn't be problematic,
though, unless I mistake your meaning?
--Todd
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) When such an operation occurs, it would be good if a message could automagically be posted to that ng that a new FAQ has been generated. Great for old-timers, semi-lurkers, and newbies alike. (...) You got it. I would volunteer to keep my (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: What's your current project?
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| (...) Enfield is only a stone's throw from Hartford/New Haven, Connecticut, so the group would be lugnet.loc.us.ct.hnh, unless it might someday become prudent to have a separate Enfield group -- but I think most LEGO employees live 5-20 miles from (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: What's your current project?
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| (...) Additionally, this way you have a possibility of people actually READING the FAQ. If it is is just there all the time -- the one time it wil be in the message queue will be at the very beginning -- like the Welcome to... and Terms of Use (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: What's your current project?
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| (...) Yeah. I found out the long way that an FAQ existed. Typed "lego" in a search engine, and eventually someone's page pointed to it. Then I read about RTL. Then I had to configure my newsreader, which I had never done before. That way I actually (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) With regards to rtl's FAQ we should leave it alone so we don't irk someone. But your idea sounds okay. One FAQ indigenous to each ng. Todd, since I know virtually nothing about servers (other than they serve information), how do you keep the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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