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Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 04:13:47 GMT
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It would have to be (space)(four digit number)(space) only. Otherwise
you'd have problems with phone numbers, possibly auction prices, years,
etc. Other than that, it's a great idea.
-Luis

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, David Schilling wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Jean auBois <aubois@trail.com> writes:
> > Would you mind translating the set numbers into names?  Thanks.
> 
> (Note, I use the web interface to LUGNET.  The following relates to that, not
> other newsreaders.)
> 
> For a long time I've wished that set numbers in postings would be clickable.
> This would be a killer feature!  The web display of messages already parses
> out links and makes these clickable.  It should be reasonably easy to also
> look for four digit numbers and if they correspond to a set, make that a link
> to the pause database as well.  Virtually all sets have 4 digit numbers.
> (Once this became a feature on LUGNET, people could add zeros to non-4 digit
> set numbers so that this feature would work with them too.)
> 
> How about it?  Anybody else interested in this?
> 
> Followups to lugnet.admin.general.
> 
> --
>   David Schilling
> 
> 

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  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) Um, actually, check this out: (URL) Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> (URL) (27 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) Actually it wouldn't matter too much if false matches were made, as the context would be enough for people to recognize that this is a real set number. The idea is to just provide a quick link to the database so that people can see a set if (...) (27 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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