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Re: Request for [DAT] articles
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:04:17 GMT
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jsproat@io+AntiSpam+.com
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> writes:
> > Would it be possible to insert the URL for the DAT file into the message
> > body? That way, someone with an NNTP client that recognized URLS and makes
> > links out of them would be able to view DAT files on LUGNET without needing
> > to launch the Web browser.
> Possible, yes; straightforward, no.
> [...]
> safe way to do it would be to have some script go through and post-process
> each article after it appears in the news database -- after the article
> number and therefore the URL are known.
Bummer. :-/
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Darth Maul Lives
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| (...) Possible, yes; straightforward, no. When an article is submitted to the newsserver, it's not known what ordinal number will be assigned to it until the instant that it actually appears. That is, only the newsserver can assign the article (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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