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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 (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) 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)
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| | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —David Schilling
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| | | | (...) 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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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) But Todd has put so much effort into making LugNET do things The Right Way it seems a shame to mar it with such an unelegant solution. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | | (...) for (...) I think this would be great. I'd be happy to abide by some nomenclature that automagically turned set numbers into hyperlinks for users of the web interface. <set=6077> could turn into <a href="www.lugnet.com...6077"> 6077</a>, and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I was thinkin' thumbnails along the bottom or side wouldn't get in the way too much, maybe, if there were false positives... --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) Down the side would work, especially as this is a web interface thing - I don't know about other people, but I've got a lot of screen real estate doing nothing in messages... My major concern with that would be loading times. The S@H specials, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | | | (...) I don't like the idea of thumbnail *pictures* automatically showing up beside messages. Purely iconic links would be OK. I do like the idea of a syntax that will get automagically expanded from something like LS#6077 to a hyperlink to the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) I'd be happy with LS#\d+ as the standard way to write the set numbers. Unlike URLs, there's not any confusion over whether a . is part of the URL or not, etc. Todd, you mentioned that lego set numbers are actually strings. Do they contain (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) That's true. I'm also thinking outside of the web interface.... If I have some newsreader which I want to set up to react to set numbers, it'd be nice if they were distinctly identifiable. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Shiri Dori
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| | | | (...) I was thinking this could be easily done if people used a rail/number (#) sign before the set number. That way, the system finds only numbers after that sign. Just a thought. -Shiri (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Definitely helps. But there's still lots of other possible matches for that. (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —David Schilling
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| | | | (...) If some special syntax is used, then it has to be something really simple, otherwise people won't do it. Using either #8880 or <8880> as a way of indicating set numbers would be okay, but anything more and people won't remember it, or won't (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | David Schilling: (...) Correct. (...) The first one is slightly too general. People do refer to part #3001 quite often (but it is mostly other parts that are referenced by number). (...) Seriously. Lugnet has only existed for a year (or is it two?). (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) And it does mimic the schema for URLs. ( <URL:(URL) ) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99 —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | | (...) I agree. The fact that the functionality might not be retroactive for old posts is not a problem. (...) True. Or, the suggested LS#xxxx nomenclature could be modified to handle parts lookups -- LP#yyyy would produce a hyperlink to LEGO part (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Set Links (was Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99) —David Schilling
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| | | | (...) URLs that point to non-existant sites are still displayed as links, though. If a number is indicated by someone to be a set number using whatever syntax, but there is no such set (or at least not yet) I think that it should still be a link. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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