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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:28:15 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
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> > If a sysadmin decided "by golly, if users don't type
> > www.mydomain.com/buystuff/ then screw them, they aren't getting to the page
> > that allows them to buy stuff from me" that would certainly be his
> > right.
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> Yes, but that's a rather extreme example, don't you think? I don't think the
> two situations equate at all. It's nto as if users are finding themselves
> unable to find the discussion groups or anything.
No, I don't think it is extreme. In fact, I think it might just be applicable
to LUGNET in some way, given the fact that many of the set listing pages have
affiliate links on them to eToys (and aren't there some pages with links
containing LUGNET's affiliate code for Amazon?). Every one of those links is
a potential money-maker (and more power to Todd for having them there - I hope
they make him a fortune someday). Every frustrated user who doesn't make it
to a page and see that link is a potential sale lost.
As for people being unable to find the discussion groups, try typing in this:
www.lugnet.com/castle
Anything there that even remotely suggests you might find something more if
you type this:
www.lugnet.com/castle/
No.
Call me lazy, won't bother me - /castle should work. www.hbo.com/sopranos
works. I guess the system administrator at hbo.com is more tolerant of "lazy"
users. Or maybe more interested in having his system fulfill its purpose than
in being 100% technically correct when it comes to URLs?
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Yes, and I'm sure the lost revenue from people who are trying to open a browser and point to Lugnet to find a set (without using the search feature, mind you) and follow that link through to eToys to buy the item, adds up toa staggering (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) It's not that, Mike, it's that /castle is actually a valid URL of a valid webpage (it just happens to be empty). When I view that, it shows me a button which says "Start This Page" and I could click that and type in content onto that page if I (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yes, but that's a rather extreme example, don't you think? I don't think the two situations equate at all. It's nto as if users are finding themselves unable to find the discussion groups or anything. eric (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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