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  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) Definitely helps. But there's still lots of other possible matches for that. (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
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)
 
  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) And it does mimic the schema for URLs. ( <URL:(URL) ) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) 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)
 
  Set Links (was Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99)
 
(...) 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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