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Subject: 
Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:09:46 GMT
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JSPROAT@IOnomorespam.COM
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Todd Lehman wrote:
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
It didn't actually happen fast.  Actually, it took more than a year to arrive
at this solution.  It had been suggested several times before...needed to
synergize, I suppose.
Wait.  I'm on crack.

That's fair.  I've been on muscle relaxants for the past two days; I'm not
sure if my posts have been entirely coherent (not that they would be anyway
:-).

It sometimes seems like a year, but the homepage with
coalesced groups has only been up since early last May, IIRC.  Anyway, it
had been suggested in the past, but didn't reach critical mass right away.

The decision for the change completely blindsided me.  The recent
(yesterday's) discussion of it was awful short before the change was
implemented.

But I'm not sure if I would recommend every modification to LUGNET be
discussed for a specified period of time before implementation.  I don't think
such a requirement would be a Good Thing.

Arg.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society



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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Ya, it was pretty quick. Kind of like a thunderclap. :) It was 10% kneejerk and 90% "Oh my god, look what has happened, as warned. X and Y and Z (people) were right all along!" (I think JoshuaD was the first person to point out the potential (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Wait. I'm on crack. It sometimes seems like a year, but the homepage with coalesced groups has only been up since early last May, IIRC. Anyway, it had been suggested in the past, but didn't reach critical mass right away. --Todd (24 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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