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| | | (...) Typical programmer answer. :-) Clearly it's not giving good results. But it's working as designed, so it's not a bug. It's a feature. Or a mis-feature. (1) :-) (puts on PM/Architect hat) Whatever you call it, it's not meeting requirements from (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Ya, Agreed. At the time the "Brief" view-mode was conjured up, there were relatively few messages going by with garbled line-endings, and it didn't show up much at all. People seem to be getting a lot more lazy these days about cleaning up (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | (...) That'd be cool and very useful IMO. When you add it, can you also put the LUGNET header at the top of the "posted message, please use back button" page? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) YES! Tres useful. (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Ooo, yeah. That's what I've been wanting on that page. Consistency would boost usability, in this case. And having a link back to the replied-to message (for follow-ups only, of course), would be grand. But definitely that LUGNET header thingy (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) I may not have been clear in that last bit--I meant that, after posting a follow-up message, it would be nice for the confirmation page to have a link back to the message I had follow-uped. Steve (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | Todd: (...) If you want to be really nice, you can make the script generating the preview page check the URL's, and mark those that return an error status in a distinct colour. Play well, Jacob (one of the really lazy guys) ---...--- -- E-mail: (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:48:38 GMT sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) wrote concerning 'Re: summaries on main page': (...) that'd be scary - while it's possible to make it safe to do so, I wouldn't want users to be able to tell my server (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | | | | Dan: (...) [...] (...) Since the script wouldn't have to grab any HTML at all, I can't see what the problem is. You just do a HEAD request and check if the result is below 400. Checking the URL (URL) can for example be done as follows: Me....: (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Oooh! --Todd (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | | Todd: (...) "Oooh no!" or "Oooh yes!"? It will increase the load on the server slightly, but I think it would be beneficial. - Why make humans do what a computer can do for us? Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Oooh excellent idea. --Tood (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: summaries on main page —Dan Boger
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| | | | Just ran into another instance of this problem: (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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