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  ratings?
 
I've been really busy at work and not able to hang out here as much as I'd like. But I noticed that there's a new rating system, which seems pretty cool, except it seems useless to me as an NNTP user. :( Todd, are you aware of the GroupLens system? (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: ratings?
 
(...) Not yet, no, but planned for. (...) Yikes, and bandwidth and CPU intensive. The only scripts on the lugnet.com server which are intended to be called from other scripts are... /news/avid.cgi /news/rate.cgi ...those have APIs (others don't). (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: ratings?
 
(...) I think if I had to resort to that, I'd only do it when the article was called up. That would take less bandwidth and CPU than using a GUI web browser.... Definitely not ideal, though. (...) Are those published APIs? If you could be so kind as (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  APIs for avid.cgi and rate.cgi (was: Re: ratings?)
 
(...) Somewhat so, but not ultra-formally... Here's the first one... (2 URLs) digging for the second one. (I might not've posted it yet...but in the absense of that it's safe enough for the time being to look at the HTML form and emulate what it (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: APIs for avid.cgi and rate.cgi (was: Re: ratings?)
 
(...) Good, 'cause that's what I'm doing. *grin* (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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