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Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:09:56 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jasper Janssen writes:
[...]
How easu would it be for you to set up a test group on one of the test
ports containing, say, some of lugnet.general into
lugnet.off-topic.test.something?
[...]

I looked around a bit in the newsserver code last night and I was thinking
of setting up a virtual newsgroup called _lugnet as a test case, and just
filling it manually with some stuff, and seeing what happened with a few
newsreaders.  Before I do that, though, I'll need to make sure that certain
parts of the system can ignore the group, since it won't be "real."  If that
test goes well, then another group, say, _lugnet.loc, might be another to
try with some real data.


[...]
You still have to deal with non-follow-ups that get posted in the
umbrella groups, though. A rejection with a simple URL explaining the
problem would probably be best.

Yah, or else perhaps alternatively, a message posted out of the blue to, say,
_lugnet.cad could be sent to lugnet.cad without giving an error message.  That
could work for just about any virtual umbrella group except the top-level one
and a couple others like _lugnet.admin and _lugnet.market...

--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
 
(...) "_" being a prefix for umbrella groups? Or is that just for testing? I still think I like the .general idea. It seems clean and logical to me. (I mean, why do we have lugnet.general instead of just posting into lugnet?) I don't think that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
 
(...) Because of the "other parts of the system", is the prefix thing a necessary/near necessary step? (...) I don't think it should work like that. Less incentive to micro-classify threads. Jasper (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
 
(...) I'd leave off the lugnet, but yeah, that's the idea. I'm still not entirely convinced it wouldbe a good thing, though. (...) Hmm. Which would mean that you would have to create every single group as a .general. Bad. (...) I'd like it. Does (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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