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Todd, Since most members don't seem to rate messages very often, I had an idea to help pick top stories...Can you keep track of how many replies a message has? If so, then a lot of replies to a fairly recent message (fuzzy sorting again) would (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Growth
 
(...) Me too. I agree. (25 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Growth
 
(...) I probably didn't explain it right... The example that you give above works, but something like (URL) because it thinks that song.mp3 is the port number. Other failures include (URL) it would try to connect on port 100. As Todd pointed out, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: New Partsref is pure bliss
 
(...) You're correct, "multiple" can be different for each of us. OK, how's this? I think Todd's search limit is similar (maybe same code) to the search function for the set database... I'm proposing that it be over-ridden for these links. But even (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Growth
 
(...) I was not sure when I first asked. That is why I asked. :-) You raise some good points below. I think, in retrospect, that LUGNET must have its own natural ceiling. Above that level, readers will get less out of it (due to loss of sense of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)


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