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I've been finding myself a bit overwhelmed by the LUGNET newsgroups lately. It seems like every day there are announcements for new subgroups and discussion categories. I understand why these are important, and that it is nice to be able to read two (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !!
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(...) :) Yup agree lots.. I think a *great* suggestion is made in this post: (URL) Will Middelaer.. basically he suggests that when a web-interface user hits 'post message', before it is sent to the server, if the message is crossposted, then an (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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You forgot to mention that you set the followups to lugnet.general - just so that anyone else replying to the original doesn't wonder where their post got to :) (URL) Actually, it is too easy to do that I think - in addition to crosspost (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yet another good point. Even though I was trying to be careful, I made an easy mistake that demonstrates the danger of our current pidgeonholing scheme that winds up only confusing people. This is not a criticism of Todd at all, I think he is (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) while this is a workaround and not a solution to the problem you're pointing out, is to read lugnet either with NNTP or through the news-by-mail. Both will only show you a message once, no matter how many groups it's crossposted to. :) Dan (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Whoa, you lost me here. Not all newsreaders are created equal. For example, I just checked MSOE v4.72 and could not locate any settings to exclude cross-posted messages--have looked for this a few times before, too. My alternate newsreader, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It doesn't send you multiple copies of crossposted articles via e-mail. It's smart enough to know that if you're subscribed to both A and B, and someone crossposts to both A and B, to send you only one copy rather than two. (Of course in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) cross-posted (...) Okay, something about Digest mode is what I was thinking, but I could not get my brain to connect to my fingertips on this one. I do not receive any groups using delayed digest mode any more, so just was not totally sure. It (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Or to use the web-interface's filtering mechanism to match the groups you want to read, and then read everything from the root, so all the messages are mashed together in a single stream. Definitely not a solution for every occasion, but it (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's an education issue. We need less cross-posting, and more use of followup-to. Personal opinion: it's very rarely necessary to cross-post to lugnet.general. And if it does seem like cross-posting to lg is good, then followup-to should be (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 06:08:37 GMT "Kevin Salm" <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> wrote concerning 'Re: LUGNET getting too complex?': (...) you are correct, I'm not sure all newsreaders do it, but from my (limited) experience, it's a common feature. I haven't (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I imagine that when Todd gets around to making the web site able to keep track of which messages you've read, this feature will be available there too. But I don't think that's going to be available for a while. :( (This is one of many reasons (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think it already does that - if you rate a message, it'll appear as rated by you in all the groups it's been crossposted to (with the little red arrow by the rating)... So all you need to do it rate each message you read ;) :) Dan (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Kevin Salm" <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> wrote in message news:FtAx2D.GB2@lugnet.com... (...) example, I (...) As an aside I should point out that Outlook Express 5 is does spot cross-posted messages and marks them as downloaded and read if one has (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Dan Boger wrote in message <38FF7F13.BA000A27@g...wn.edu>... (...) Another alternative for keeping messages marked as READ using web interface is to set the history file setting for a longer amount of time. I have mine in Netscape set at 80 days. I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, this is exactly why I don't see that as an option. I regularly read lugnet from three different systems, and infrequently from others. (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Which, if I understand correctly, is no longer available, since you can't rate "No Opinion" any more. ++Lar (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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