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Re: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 10:06:48 GMT
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Todd:

>    Newsgroup name                  Webpage label
>    ============================    =========================================
>    lugnet.cad                      CAD
>    lugnet.cad.dat.ideas            CAD / DAT Files / Ideas
>    lugnet.cad.dat.models           CAD / DAT Files / Models
>    lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets      CAD / DAT Files / Models / Sets
>    lugnet.cad.dat.parts            CAD / DAT Files / Parts
>    lugnet.cad.dat.parts.prim       CAD / DAT Files / Parts / Primitives
>    lugnet.cad.dat.scenes           CAD / DAT Files / Scenes
>    lugnet.cad.dev                  CAD / Development
>    lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw        CAD / Development / ... / ldraw.org
>    lugnet.cad.ray [R]              CAD / Ray-Tracing
> 
> And we'd shut down lugnet.cad.dat.  In this scheme of things, these would
> also be non-discussion groups (DAT files only) and stuff posted to these
> groups would have to have follow-ups set (by default) like so:

[...]

I think this looks pretty good.

It felt a bit wrong to leave out LDraw from the names, but
since it isn't the only program handling DAT files this
makes sense.

> I'm not keen on separating the data from the discussions, but neither are
> some other people keen on putting them together.

Assuming discussions and data are kept together. Would it be
easy to modify the web interfaces so references are marked
with both a "read link" and a "draw link" when appropriate?
Would it be possible to view the groups in a way that only
shows DAT files?

> Open questions:
> 
> 1.  Is lugnet.cad.dat.* the best place to locate these new groups?

Probably.

> 2.  Should discussion be allowed or prevented in these groups?  That is,
>     should follow-ups to postings be directed to a different group, namely
>     either lugnet.cad or lugnet.cad.dev?  (See
>        http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad.dev:1343
>     for reasons in support of allowing discussion in the groups.)

Depends on your answer to the questions above. I suspect
discussions should be allowed in the parts groups.

> 3.  Are URLs like
>        http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dat/parts/
>        http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dat/models/sets/
>     tolerable and understandable?  Or is it best if /ldraw/ appears in
>     there somewhere?

It would be nice if the URL's included LDraw, but your
suggestion is definitely both tolerable and understandable.


Play well,

Jacob

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  Re: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
 
(...) Welp, it feels nice to move around in, but it SURE feels disjointed from the rest of the CAD stuff, which makes it no fun at all in the final analysis. Cross-linkages could repair some of that, but that's just a band-aid, and it would just (...) (27 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)

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