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Re: It's time to get rid of my Technic Collection
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 03:55:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.council, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.council, Richard Franks writes:
> > [...]
> > If I was a regular buyer of a certain theme then I wouldn't want to check >1
> > group, when one group would do (via the web-interface). Does NTTP and
> > news-by-mail collapse the tree like the web-interface?
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> I'm not aware of any NNTP newsreaders which collapse/coalesce groups in a tree
> for composite reading, but one distant possibility is handling this on the
> server by creating a special 'virtual' hierarchy of groups to parallel the
> 'real' groups, for example:
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> _lugnet.loc.uk = lugnet.loc.uk + lugnet.loc.uk.*
> _lugnet.robotics = lugnet.robotics + lugnet.robotics.*
Ah yep - that's what I meant to ask, I meant server side but I wasn't terribly
clear :)
> The $64,000 question (and I haven't tried this in many newsreaders yet) is
> whether most newsreaders are flexible enough not to double-check the newsgroup
> name (at the client end) when posting followups. In other words, if you're
> reading _lugnet.robotics (the virtual mega-group), and you post a message to
> lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos while you're in that virtual mega-group, your
> newsreader has to be able to pass that along without balking at you for trying
> to post a message to a group that you're not subscribed to. So anyway, the
> bottom line is that this scenario is really a client issue and not a server
> issue (but that's good news).
In theory - would it be possible for users(1) to go to a web-page and select a
hierarchy (eg lugnet.castle), and the sub-groups that they wanted to appear
within that group (eg .lugnet.castle.castleworld, lugnet.castle.market), and
have the server send them the contents of all three groups when the client
requests lugnet.castle?
(Any market group would be 'off' by default, for both the web and NNTP.)
The defaults may look something like:
-=-=-
Options for: lugnet.castle
View subgroups: [Web] [NNTP] [Mail]
lugnet.castle.castleworld x o o
lugnet.castle.market o o o
-=-=-
It'll probably format horridly, but hopefully not so much that it's hard to
figure out what I'm rambling about :)
This might:
1) Mean that meta-groups, and the resulting user confusion isn't necessary
2) Those who wanted to see market posts in theme groups could if they
*selected* the option to, and the rest of us would be protected from them by
default.
Richard
1 - Might be too complex to add this feature for users, but as it would be
valuable extra functionality, making it another benefit of being a member
wouldn't be a terrible thing.
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