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  random post
 
I just had an idea. How about making a "random post" feature. Have a page or a button that displays a random post from the past. KL (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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(...) That might be kinda cool! As is, I guess you could do the same thing by doing something like using the form: (URL) 12345 with a random number between 1 and whatever number we're up to...90,000 something now?) Of course it's probably bad to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: random post
 
(...) Ha-HA! So I'm not the only one then! I actually made a thing for that last year -- on (hmm, when was it? lemme check...<tap, tap, tap>...OK, got it) on June 23, 1999. The link to it was on the www.lugnet.com homepage for about a month, but I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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(...) Sure, just add an <hr> (or is that &gt;hr&lt;?) and a fifth article summary - the random one. -Steven (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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Or better yet, MAKE a random post? Like the one I just did to off-topic.fun but better. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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(...) -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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(...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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Hey, I remember that random-post link. Don't know that I used it much. When I first read Kevin's post I thought--yuck, what a horrible idea. So I tried the link six or seven times and it was kinda fun. One message in Dutch, two from Larry and all of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: random post
 
(...) barney:/var/spool/mail# telnet www.lugnet.com 80 Trying 209.68.63.236... Connected to lugnet.com. Escape character is '^]'. get (URL) HTTP/1.0 <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>302 Moved Temporarily</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY> <H1>Moved Temporarily</H1> The (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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(...) In an unprecedented display of synchronicity, Todd's randmsg.cgi just returned to me... your random rant. About me... Life is stranger than fiction. Jasper (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: random post
 
(...) Hey, somebody's doing a lot of non-root stuff as root. :) (...) Yeah maybe. But there's no other choice in http 1.0, really, is there? 1.1 has a 303 "See Other", which might be better. But what's the state of http 1.1 implementation in (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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(...) Shh. I use my shell mostly for root stuff, and I don't bother to start up a user shell for those occasional highly non-destructive tasks. (...) No clue, though I think at least some features ar incorporated in the major browsers (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
 
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(...) Hey, it's for your own good, y'know. *grin* (...) (URL) Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
 
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(...) Heh. (...) doesn't? Jasper (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: random post
 
(...) Actually, I just looked at the lugnet server, and it seems to be spitting out headers for me. Odd. (Well, not that it is odd now -- it's what it's sensible for it to be doing. Odd that it wasn't for you.) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: random post
 
(...) Analyses: Snip the whole pagesfull of quotes: I've got it. (...) GET gets headers, get doesn't. Ach. Jasper (24 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: random post
 
(...) ah yes. the method is case sensitive. (24 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)

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