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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) But in order to link by message ID, you have to either serve the message by url-encoded message ID (because people will always just cut & paste the URL) instead of by group & number, or give people some way to click a "bookmark or link to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Message-ID lengths (was: Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?) [DAT]
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(...) Whoops, I forgot to hold off on posting that until my script finished. Those two numbers were just placeholders from memory. OK, the script finished running, and the average Message-ID length is 29.8346 characters, and the smallest of the set (...) (25 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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(...) Possibly. But it does introduce other issues, such as the moving-stuff-around one. And I can think of various possible past and future reasons why you might want to do that. But actually, upon further reflection, does this really matter? I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Message-ID lengths (was: Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?)
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(...) Heh. Ok, so it might be reasonable to have something that does a mapping, for the sake of the poor humans. :) (...) Probably not. Just one that happened to intrigue me. And now, it's All Figured Out in case you want to implement it in the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Message-ID lengths (was: Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?)
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(...) I'm glad you brought it up, actually, because you pointed out a few things I hadn't considered (such as the fact that splitting a group wouldn't necessarily mean zeroing it out). I racked my brain pretty hard back in May-June last year, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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