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Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:05:54 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:
> > For practical reasons, it's extremely difficult (next to impossible
> > in an automated way) to move messages out of a non-empty newsgroup and into
> > a new one, and it's not reasonable simply to throw them away.
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> I have the belief that a good, automated solution could be devised. :)
And it would automatically go out to all the webpages on the net and fix up
the links where people say things like "discuss this on LUGNET" and give a
link to the article they posted?
And it would automatically go back through all the news articles and fix up
text where people said "it's article 3532 in lugnet.foo.bar"?
And it would automatically fix bugs in newsreaders that can't deal with a
newsgroup having its article count set back to 0?
--Todd
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 | | Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
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| (...) Ah. Always a problem in the shifting sea of the web. Sites rearrange and break links all the time. But in this case, there's something else at work: The problem is that people are linking to the wrong thing. Article numbers are arbitrary and (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
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| (...) Well, not the last one for sure. And probably not "lugnet.loc", either. (Groups which don't exist don't get crossposted to; seem reasonable. This lets you not make those groups which don't make sense. You've done this already, right?) And the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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