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Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 21:17:57 GMT
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Nephilim wrote:
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> Todd writes:
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> > Personally (just me speaking here, as a fan), I would like to see one group
> > for every last Play Theme (i.e., Arctic, Divers, Forestmen, etc.) within
> > every single System (i.e., Town, Castle, Space, etc.) within every single
> > product programme (i.e., LEGO SYSTEM, LEGO MINDSTORMS, LEGO DUPLO, etc),
> > because I'm confident that the positives would ultimately outweigh the
> > negatives, but at this point, very few people are actually indicating that
> > they agree that it would be a good idea at this point. Which makes me
> > conclude that it may not be a good idea at this point, nevertheless I do
> > still think it's inevitable at some point, when that time is right.
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> I would support this if the LUGNET web interface facilitates collapsing
> all of the sub-groups into larger groups. For example, if I click on
> space, I'd like the interface to show me all the messages for
> space.blacktron, space.mtron, etc. Then, if I click on one of
> those subgroups, of course I only get messages for that particular
> subgroup.
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> Since this is the way it already works (hooray!), I wouldn't mind
> playtheme-oriented subgroups. To me, it would look as if all of
> those posts were still appearing in lugnet.town, lugnet.space, etc.
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> I do think it's a bit of a needless hypersubdivision, but it's not
> a harmful one ... to me, using the web interface. Someone who
> suddenly now needs to subscribe to a dozen plus new newsgroups to
> cover the space theme might feel differently.
The problem is that there isn't collapsing of newsgroups for
newsreaders. Frankly, I am having difficulty really keeping track of all
the groups as it is. Perhaps if I had the ultimate newsreader (which
would let me flag messages that I had read, but still wanted to see when
looking at the group, but didn't count as "unread" messages for
determining which newsgroups have new messages). At home it's even worse
since I haven't yet found an option for Outlook Express which hides the
newsgroups with no unread messages.
The web interface doesn't suit me (for one thing, at work, web traffic
is slower than news traffic since sessions get opened and closed
constantly, which takes time when going through the firewall, and
occaisionally, DNS takes forever to resolve, during which my WHOLE
Netscape, mail, browsers, and news, can do NOTHING else (not even
re-draw the screen), sometimes it takes almost a minute to time out - so
much for "real" multitasking (I use Unix at work - well actually AIX)).
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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