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Re: YET ANOTHER silly suggestion about falling off the end of the earth
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Fri, 16 Oct 1998 23:13:50 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpien@ctp.com> writes:

> When I fall off the end and I get the "article does not exist" message, which I
> realise you plan to get rid of eventually, is there anything useful that COULD
> be done? Would it be reasonable to redisplay the list of the last 20 articles?

Maybe, but it's the same problem there -- when it gives the "article does
not exist" message, it doesn't know if you walked off the end or if the
article was cancelled.

--Todd



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  Re: YET ANOTHER silly suggestion about falling off the end of the earth
 
POSSIBLE DUP, I outsmarted myself with the back button. (...) Show the error, then... Show articles from -20 to +20 (pick a number, 20 may be too big) which you can try for no matter whether the user fell off the beginning, the end, or hit a hole (...) (28 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  YET ANOTHER silly suggestion about falling off the end of the earth
 
When I fall off the end and I get the "article does not exist" message, which I realise you plan to get rid of eventually, is there anything useful that COULD be done? Would it be reasonable to redisplay the list of the last 20 articles? ======== (...) (28 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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