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Re: random post
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 06:02:48 GMT
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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 them at least six months old.
Anyway, I think that having a random message displayed is a bad idea. Plus
there is just no place to squeeze it in on the home page. But if you can fit
the link, I think it would be entertaining at times when reading all of the
other posts gets to be a bit boring. I will personally hope for a random pick
that is a bit on the juicy side or has a good spamcake anecdote!
My final vote--go for it if you can squeeze a link or a button somewhere.
BTW--perhaps if you can configure to exclude .test and .off-topic I think this
would be best, IMO.
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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