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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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(...) 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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| | Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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(...) Zero time. It's done continuously as a background process. Once per minute, any new article is added into the mix. (...) This kind of index is more efficient to do as soon as something new appears, as opposed to a kind of index where content (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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(...) Again, I am not trying to be argumentative, but I don't see this problem as one of maliciousness. That is, it isn't "jerks" who are multiposting individual groups, or not setting followups correctly. Just lazy people and people who know (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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(...) I mostly concur, I just sometimes wonder if it might be the best solution (of course the counter to that is that you get the jerks who work around the cross posting rules by posting individually to each group - but they can be TOSed). (...) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What about using a style sheet? Would that help? I admit that I am not sure exactly what level of browser for the big two correctly supports style sheets (I ought to know this since I have been using them a lot in recent web development (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) How long does it take to generate the index? Can you subdivide the index at all (and do something like backup where you have incremental indices plus once a day or once an hour regenerate the complete index)? If some sort of incremental index (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Splitting the list into a page for each letter (or perhaps groups of 2-4 letters) or country/state would cut the page size down dramatically was my idea. Almost every time I've gone to look at the list, I'm either looking for a specific (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's (currently) a half-gigabyte index that gets indexed in realtime (once per minute). --Todd (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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(...) it does - I think. When you post to .annouce, even from mail or nntp, doesn't it require a followup? if so, adding a few other rules to that check should be quite possible... (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think it's more of a problem of having to have the page in memory (all 300k of it) while a slow client downloads it. Nothing much to do about that except make the page smaller - perhaps move all the FONT FACE entries to an all encompassing (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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(...) I think that's a bit extreme, although what I snipped below is good discussion fodder. I think a number of the recent cross posts have been initiated by people who either are new, or who don't post as often as some of us. An initial cross post (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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