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Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
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Date: 
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) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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