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Re: New feature: Article rating
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Date: 
Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:38:25 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > Easy to do in the outgoing mail, very hard to do in the outgoing news.
> > But almost all the outgoing mail goes out within 60 seconds of the article
> > being posted, so they'd all say 50 anyway.
> 
> Doh! didn't think of that... hmm... what I was getting at is that the
> avid.cgi will spit it out...  since most users can't/wont modify their
> newsreaders anyhow, it'll only help those of us that use a custom made
> reader anyhow...

Maybe a header could be snuck in there, yeah.  Or maybe there should be a
counterpart to avid.cgi (or a URL-line switch) to fetch (for updating) the
latest article ratings without having to fetch the bodies again.

--Todd



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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) MAYBE Lugnet should publish a newsreader for NNTP purposes. I am sure that Todd could do it and could certainly get assistance from other Lugnetters. It may be the copywrite/proprietary stuff that will get messy. Whattaya think Todd?? Ever (...) (27 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) I think that a URL-line switch for this would be great. Now if only I'd become a member sooner so that I could have my membership packet by now. :) Ben Roller (27 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Doh! didn't think of that... hmm... what I was getting at is that the avid.cgi will spit it out... since most users can't/wont modify their newsreaders anyhow, it'll only help those of us that use a custom made reader anyhow... :) Dan (27 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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