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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) [Todd said] (...) [then Scott replied] (...) [and Todd replied thusly] (...) I side with Todd here. In fact, this is my first substantive post to any group in lugnet.admin.* because, frankly, I don't care to be bothered with administrative (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) OK, it's ready -- give it a shot and lemme know what you think: (URL) I care not one whit about auctions, for example, and would like to see them (...) Try one of these: -.auction or -.market.auction or -lugnet.market.auction --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
Cool. I gave it a +lugnet, which I think (since you're just doing character matching) will include everything and should be the same net effect on groups shown as just feeding it a blank input box... (but does it process slower??) *Since* you're (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) That would be ever so slightly slower than an empty string, yes. I'm not sure it could be easily measured, though...talking probably something on the order of a 10^-5 second difference. (...) It's doing pure & simple character matchines, ya, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Prolly also worth explaining somewhere that the expression is compiled left-to-right and is therefore direction-sensitive. That is, -.loc. +.loc.us.ca is very different from +.loc.us.ca -.loc. The string expression is compiled into a code (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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