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Subject: 
Re: The commonfolk's FAQ
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:41:10 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Eric Kingsley writes:

While I can't take credit for Duane's great idea this is even better than what
I was thinking.  I was thinking just a post with an allready defined Acronym
once a week to keep the visability of the page up in order to reduce the number
of Acronym questions.

I think it would be great if we could get all the Acronyms into a simple
Database and have some sort of a random acronym chosen from the list whenever
someone loads the LUGNET home page and displayed is kind of a dictionary type
format with the acronym and its definition.

That's sounds pretty cool.  I would go even farther and have a randomly
selected acronym appear on any newsgroup page on LUGNET, say at the top
or something.  It would be just like the taglines that used to appear
on BBS's in "The Old Days".  By making it appear on every news page,
people would get through the entire acronym list pretty quickly.

I for one wouldn't see it if it was only on the home page, because I
don't often go there.  I usually jump right to the news home page.

KDJ
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LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada



Message has 1 Reply:
  Randomly generated acronyms (was: Re: The commonfolk's FAQ)
 
(...) Yeah.... plus, people wouldn't encounter acronyms directly on the front page anyway! It's the newsgroups where they appear frequently. Still, I'd get kinda annoyed if there was an acronym on every news page. Maybe on the news' front page? (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: The commonfolk's FAQ
 
Crossposted to admin.general (...) <snip> While I can't take credit for Duane's great idea this is even better than what I was thinking. I was thinking just a post with an allready defined Acronym once a week to keep the visability of the page up in (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)

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