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Re: random post
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:48:44 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> 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.
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 took it down when
it appeared that no one was using it, and I had to cram some other more
important links in place of it. Here's the URL:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/randmsg.cgi
What it does is:
- Accesses the list of all articles ever posted to the system -- the same
list that the root homepage uses when it displays the 4 most recent
messages, and subsequent pagings use when displaying ranges of messages.
- Picks a random message number M between 1 and N, where N is the total
number of messages in the system (90365 at the moment) and fetches the
newsgroup and article number ID-pair for that Mth message, and looks that
message up in the big list.
- Sends a 'Location:' header back to your browser to redirect it to the
article it randomly chose. So, when you see the article, you see it at its
native URL rather than from the randmsg.cgi URL. :)
--Todd
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Message has 6 Replies:
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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
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| (...) 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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| 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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