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Re: 'My recent LUGNET Posts' idea
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:07:09 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> It would be a preprequisite, yes, since the association table which would
> map 'From:' lines to member id's (and vice-versa) would make the rest much
> simpler. Once that's done (and I haven't begun to attack the problem yet
> but am becoming increasingly convinced that it is inevitable), things like
> linking to a member profile page from a message become very, very easy, and
> things like lists of posts by member id become much less difficult.
Sounds good.
> I came across an article last month in the current issue of The Perl Journal
> in which the author was solving a similar problem -- matching up two similar
> lists of names but taking slight differences into account with probabilities.
> IIRC, it had a library of names and other bags of tricks for determining that,
> for example, Bob Snodgrass and Robert H. Snodgrass are more similar than
> different -- helping to match up near-matches.
Good idea there, but -
> The upside is that it's possible to get a large percentage of names matched
> up quickly and easily. The downside is that the rest of those that can be
> matched up have to be matched up by hand. Thus, it probably needs to be a
> very incremental approach.
If only a few need to be matched by hand, then why not take that approach
and the rest by hand may not need to be matched?
Are you going to take the approach we discussed - assigning EVEYRONE a
member number and turning on or off a variable for paid membership? That
way you can be 100% sure who is who, and a member could assign different
email addresses as posting email addresses the server recognizes, while only
taking up one account or member number slot.
-Tim
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) To me, too - cool idea. And I can definitely see usefulness, finding your own posts, finding people's pages without multiple searches, etc. (...) Yeah... After all, how many discrepancies do you forsee/approximate within less than 1000 people? (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: 'My recent LUGNET Posts' idea
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| (...) When I say "a large percentage" above, I mean that roughly, say, 80% are crystal clear match-ups. That leaves, say, 20% which aren't, and should be checked by hand. As there are 5200 registered 'From:' lines and 850 members, we're talking (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) It would be a preprequisite, yes, since the association table which would map 'From:' lines to member id's (and vice-versa) would make the rest much simpler. Once that's done (and I haven't begun to attack the problem yet but am becoming (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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