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This link: (URL) to work. It's an obvious thing to try. I could probably rattle off another 1/2 dozen links that would be obvious things to try which don't do anything useful but should. I would claim that some set of folks ought to brainstorm up a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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True, true, and also true. I agree with this for another reason. Anyone who has performed a global search for a very general subject knows that because of the large mass of messages available for the search, the search produces huge numbers of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Larry, I don't normally like to disagree with fellow LUGNETer's, and I certainly don't want to start an arugument over this, but I do find myself drawn to respond to your curious comments. I doubt that it was your intention, but your comments (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think Larry is absolutely right. It -ought- to work like that, in case someone happens to type that in if they can't find the page easily (say, they knew it was there and they'd been to it before, but they couldn't remember the URL (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Try <URL:(URL). (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think you missed the point, Matt. (and Alan, you did too...) Todd isn't asking where to get stock quotes, he's elaborating on my example. For a high traffic website like Lugnet, that has a lot of areas to explore, it is a GOOD THING to put (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) And voila, now it does! That was a quick fix! It did a very fast redirect to: (URL) I would do the training page thing by showing people they need to go to the right place but just a redirect is fine.. Here are a few more I found by trying (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually I got the point; I was just going off on a tangent. I think Todd's "IIRC" was actually the non-plural version. (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in article <FoAsq9.3z9@lugnet.com>... (...) quotes (...) to (...) I wasn't really worried about what was really being searched for with the quote.yahoo.com URL. In fact, I was using it as an example as well. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree that hotlinks are important for *all* users, but I also think having a well-designed URL structure is important for other types of users. Can't it provide hotlinks AND good design without sacrificing either? I dunno - I'm just a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in article <Fo9Jz6.1q4@lugnet.com>... (...) few (...) almost (...) someone (...) Todd, my only question about this comment is: Are you then responsible to your visitors for always maintaining the same URL (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Larry, (...) hanging (...) things are (...) I have to disagree just a bit with this particular comment. I will stick my neck out and make the following statement: Most (keyword MOST) newbies to the web could care less about URL's. Most want a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Allan wrote... (...) Just a quick interjection here to agree - to the folks who have built and continue to work on Lunget, kudos. Over lunch yesterday, a friend an I were talking about the 'net and I commented that I had, after *way* too many years (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Major sites should avoid re-structuring as much as possible, and should provide redirects when the structure changes. I am slowly building a set of LEGO reference pages. Because there is no guarantee that site structure won't change, I often (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I just added an auto-forward from /clsotw/ to /cool/. The reason it's /cool/, BTW, and not /clsotw/, is for (a) future expansion to other time periods (day, month, year, etc.) and (b) for future expansion to a discussion area for cool sites in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes. I think an important thing to remember is that a site should cater to as many segments of its audience as possible. The paradigm here is not that of your typical website. While I agree that one should be able to navigate to everywhere, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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