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Re: LUGNET getting too complex?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:49:52 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
> Michael Hopkins wrote:
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> > In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> > > 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 :)
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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.
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> > This is not a criticism of Todd at all, I think he is doing an excellent job. I
> > just wanted to make an observation that I don't spend as much time "cruising
> > lugnet" anymore because the crosspostings are getting out of control.
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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.
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 will avoid reading
cross-posted messages multiple times.
Steve
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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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