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In lugnet.admin.general, Ben Roller writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, James Brown writes:
> > Weeel, I don't know who's doing that, but since the rating of a message is
> > something that will be (is?) incorporated into how high a message scores on a
> > search, it strikes me as good that someone's rating down the .test messages.
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> I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but currently the .test messages
> don't get searched (even via the .test search box).
Yes, you are correct. Test messages do not participate in searches; not even
searches on the web test page. That search box is simply there by default but
can serve no purpose other than consistency among lugnet page displays.
If anyone really cares to search test messages, it can be done using a
newsreader.
As for value to the community, I have to disagree with the statement someone
made that .test messages have no value. I personally have seen some good
things get discovered in .test. And sometimes conversations do occur in that
group, albeit mostly meaningless. I do not frequent .test myself, but have in
the past. I do like to check in every now and then to see how many times Todd
used the words Foo and glorp, etc. in a single test message or group of them.
__Kevin Salm__
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| (...) I agree, Kevin. I love .test... just as an example, I never would've discovered the <set:xxx> and <part:yyy> if not for reading that group. (OK probably I would've discvered them eventually but I found out early this way :) (...) LOL... I like (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but currently the .test messages don't get searched (even via the .test search box) so it follows that Todd will keep this policy when the scores are included in the rankings. So rating those (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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