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Re: A Question about Posting Behavior
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:14:56 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, John Neal wrote:
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Okay, I can understand that, but at least couldn’t the colors match up
without any loss in accuracy?
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Well, there’s a little more to it, actually. Basically, you need the code to
figure out what’s what. Since LUGNET was designed to work with SMTP and NNTP,
the exact string “In lugnet.xxx.yyy, ZZZ wrote:” won’t be consistant. Right
now, the only way it knows who said what is based on how many greater-than signs
preceed the line.
For example, you could have *instead*:
On Dec 14, 2006 15:34:10, John Neal wrote:
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in lugnet.trains:
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On Dec 14, 2006, John Neal wrote:
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Building trains at 8-wide or wider is far better than 6-wide!
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Yes, but 6-wide is Lego’s standard!
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6-wide sucks!
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Now, the FTX engine would have to know that “On MMM DD, YYYY HH:MM:SS, xxx
wrote:” is a valid string as well. But it would also have to recognize “xxx
wrote in lugnet.yyy.zzz”. And also “On MMM DD, YYYY, xxx wrote:”. And every
other combination possible (which isn’t possible to enumerate since people can
define their own in their respective email/nntp applications, AND they can edit
the post when they’re writing it!)
Or, you can omit the messages all together (as many people do):
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Building trains at 8-wide or wider is far better than 6-wide!
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Yes, but 6-wide is Lego’s standard!
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6-wide sucks!
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And now the FTX engine doesn’t know how to make heads or tails out of it, except
by looking at the number of greater-thans preceeding each line.
So, essentially, it can’t really do it, unless we somehow forced the standard
onto everyone (retroactively too!). Unfortunately computers are just too darn
literal to make it feasible at the moment without being confusing for end users.
DaveE
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