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(...) Todd, Can you fix the links to my sites from CLSotW? Thanks (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Random swing from left field... One of the new DUPLO sets (3095 Wildlife Park) does have trans blue DUPLO 2x4 bricks... (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Local happenings in Australia
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(...) --DaveL What's up downunder: (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Oh -- actually, what search engines typically do on queries (and I just finally added this last week) is downvalue relatively common words and upvalue relatively uncommon words -- what's called "term ranking" or "term weighting." For example, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ya. Set the followup-to field to lugnet.publish, I guess. --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Geocities changed their naming conventions. Any links to my website will need to be reset. Simply delete the tilda, "~", before Ed Boxer ("www.geocities.com/...ego.html". I would like to crosspost this to .announce , .town , and .castle. Is that (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G6K5vr.IFK@lugnet.com... (...) posting (...) Good point. Follow-up posts don't bother me as much, since I use a newsreader, but they would muddy the .dat waters for web browsers. We (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) As an algorithmical guess, I think I'd probably attempt something a bit different... If someone enters: the I'd probably want to ignore it. But if they entered: the best design I might want to consider the 'the'. Dunno. I'd probably test an (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Ya, exactly -- first name the URL components carefully and then put a user- friendly level on top of it. Best of both worlds. (...) Ah, I see. Yeah, that could be helpful in certain cases, if you're scouring tons of results! I've needed to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Wow! So you have terms for the ampersand options in a URL? My standpoint on this would be to put everything in a form and kill 2 birds with 1 stone - not having to think of how to name URL terms (unless you enjoy doing that) and having the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) oops, doy! I didn't put in the propagation of that URL term. I don't consider it 100% "documented" yet (it's still subject to change without notice), but I still shouldn't have missed that. Thanks. I'll fix that. The reason it's subject to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) It works great! ... but the &qs doesn't carry over to the next page of results. So if I want to see more pages, I have to edit the querystring on each page. Since you already have the inner workings of this in place, it would be really easy to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Article bit-flags (was: Re: News search function reactivated)
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(...) Ooh ooh ooh... One thing I really really want is to be able to put messages into folders (if anyone knows of a decent newsreader which allows such - please let me know - it would be preferable that it do so without requiring me to store the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, one other thing...planning ahead: Another potential application of article bit-flags is read/unread lists on a person-by-person basis via the web interface. I know this is something that people have been asking for for a long time. When (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | plz cancel msg
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Todd, Please cancel this post of mine: "(URL) Thanks, Franklin ===== Franklin Cain (and please do *not* call me "Frank" ;-) fwcain@yahoo.com | (URL) Control means HITTING YOUR TARGET!! ((URL) armed society is a polite society." -- Robert A. Heinlein (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Ya, something like that'd be good to slap on top after the base functionality. :-) Nobody wants to *have* to remember how all the squiggly and square brace thingums in a search box work. :-) (...) Ya, precisely. It was originally (summer of (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Ya, let's see...as it assembles the text to index, first it grabs X-Real-Life-Name:, then it grabs either Original-From: or From:, then Subject:, then Keywords:, then Summary:, and then finally the non-quoted and non-sig parts of the body. So, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | RE: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) I think a multi-field advanced search is the way to go...much easier to use, IMO--something like the DejaNews power search: (URL) actual search keywords are in one field, and then there are numerouse ways to limit the search. --Bram Bram (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Do you index the name in "X-real-life-name"? One thought, index the special strings "from:" and "subject:". The the search: from: ffilz Should rank my posts highly due to proximity. Of course it would be better to index the real life name as (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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