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Re: Idea for the Lugnet News/Discussion Groups website
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 27 May 1999 19:33:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> Have you tried setting your newsreader up with one of the alternate NNTP
> ports (8000 or 8080)?
They have blocked the use of newsgroups totally - no newsgroup access. period.
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> > What would be extremely handy would be to have, along with the description
> > of each group, the time and date of the last post.
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> For each group, or for each sub-hierarchy, or for both?
Each group would be fine (but see my comments below about your second option).
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> > I spend a lot of time
> > checking groups that have nothing new since my last visit. There is
> > currently no way to tell, via the website, if there are new posts.
> > Anyway, just a thought/idea/suggestion.
>
> So basically, you want to be able to find & read new messages easily &
> quickly, but in the process avoid entering any groups which don't have
> anything fresh, yes?
You got it!
> What if you could "see into" all of the groups simultaneously, and browse
> backward in time through a weblog-style reverse-chronological list of
> messages with snippets and links directly into the groups?
>
> In other words, how close would something like this get to where you want to
> be?...
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> http://www.lugnet.com/temp/ss_cad.gif
> http://www.lugnet.com/temp/ss_ot.gif
> http://www.lugnet.com/temp/ss_us.gif
> http://www.lugnet.com/temp/ss_home.gif
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> It's not the same as having date/time stamps listed for all the groups,
> obviously, but it's where the web interface is headed in order to make the
> transition to the more useful general user-group paradigms. (Those are
> actual screenshots from a working version, BTW).
That would be incredible, but that seems like it would eat a lot of bandwidth
(your next option is even better).
> Alternatively, in the meantime, what if instead of listing the time/date
> stamp of the most recent message in each group, what if there were a special
> page you could go to which made the link color for each group change
> whenever there was a new message posted to that group? That actually exists
> now -- check out this URL:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi
That's perfect just the way it is - change the color for new messages - even
easier that date/times. But how does it know which groups I've read? I.E., I
only look at SW every couple of days (too threatening to my plastic). Does
your cookie track my site access?
Once again, Todd is ahead of the rest of us!!!
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