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Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:05:10 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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??)
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.
> *Since* you're doing character matching (??) are there things that could
> be fed that would give undesired effects? or are you doing word
> matching, that is, you don't match partials.
It's doing pure & simple character matchines, ya, so there could be
undesirable effects. As a tradeoff for trying to explain this at the top,
it gives a concrete list of matches & non-matches at the bottom.
> (what would the effect of -market.sh be, in other words, would it
> exclude shipping and shopping, or exclude nothing, because "sh" doesn't
> exactly match any "word" (. delimited) of any group name?)
It would exclude both lugnet.market.shipping & lugnet.market.shopping.
> This may be something you want to explain further on the page (or is it
> too geeky??)
Probably not too geeky and probably worth explaining somewhere. One
undesirable effect in particular is if you say
-.loc
you end up removing lugnet.games.lego.loco! :-) The fix for that is simply
to use
-.loc.
or
-lugnet.loc.
instead.
--Todd
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| (...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| 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 (...) (27 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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