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    random post —Kevin Loch
   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)
   
        Re: random post —David Eaton
     (...) 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 —Todd Lehman
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: random post —Steven Vore
      (...) 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)
    
         Re: random post —Tim Courtney
      (...) -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: random post —Matthew Miller
      (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         (canceled) —Kevin Salm
    
         Re: random post —Kevin Salm
      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 —Jasper Janssen
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: random post —Matthew Miller
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: random post —Jasper Janssen
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: random post —Matthew Miller
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: random post —Jasper Janssen
     (...) Heh. (...) doesn't? Jasper (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: random post —Matthew Miller
     (...) 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 —Jasper Janssen
     (...) 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 —Matthew Miller
     (...) ah yes. the method is case sensitive. (24 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: random post —Larry Pieniazek
   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)
   
        Re: random post —Jasper Janssen
   (...) 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)
 

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