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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 19:24:15 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.[NoMoreSpam]org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> 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"?
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 per-server. If you decide to make LUGnet be a distributed
network someday, this'll be a real problem. People should be linking by
message id.
> And it would automatically fix bugs in newsreaders that can't deal with a
> newsgroup having its article count set back to 0?
Wouldn't happen, would it? The group would end up with an equal or greater
number of posts.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | 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 (...) (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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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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