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In USENET, an article is refered to by it's Message-ID. Now, LUGNET is not USENET, and here articles are normally refered to by the article number on the server. This makes it a bit hard for me (or anyone else who reads from the SMTP or NNTP (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Can I direct you over to a related thread?-- (URL) free to post a flurry of ideas / suggestions / possible names there as they all interrelate. --Todd (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, I realize you are busy with other things but I thought I would mention an idea I had. I have noticed there has been some excessive cross-posting in regards to movies due to the lack of a specific group. What about creating a ng called .movies (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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(...) Yes, definitely! And the flags can link to country pages that list just the people in the country. (...) It actually won't incur extra overhead (amazingly, it will actually reduce overhead) to restrict things to hard or soft time ranges, so (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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(...) Sorry for having contributed to wasted bandwidth, though I do hope you will give some thought to the ideas of splitting up the members list as I had suggested, and some kind of "recentness" limit to the search, though I realize that the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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(...) I'm sorry. I know. You're right. It just always happens. Someone says something vague, someone else guesses something about it, someone else adds another guess, someone else adds another guess, and before you know it, everything's way off (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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(...) No need to get snippy. We're just trying to help. We don't have access to the source or even the design documentation so all we can do is speculate based on what you say, and if our speculation is wide of the mark, so be it. It's not our (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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(...) Yikes! Holy speculation, Batman! Thanks, but no thanks! Guys, this is nice and all, but you're guessing way off in left field. On the pages I was talking about, the actual webpage is not held in memory -- ever -- it's written directly to a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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(...) Thanks for the clarification, I think we're in total agreement. I think it WOULD be nice to have some automation that helped people remember not to excessively cross post (and the place to put the one page netiquette FAQ link for people to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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(...) I guess I should have clarified that I don't think the current round of excessive cross posting is jerks, I'm just pointing out that trivial things like requiring a follow-up header when cross posting doesn't remove the possibility of jerks (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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