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Re: I miss the old LUGNET...
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Date: 
Mon, 5 Nov 2001 18:03:32 GMT
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In lugnet.general (and 1 other group), Frank Filz wrote:
Steve Bliss wrote:
Seriously, I've had one or two posts that got onto the Spotlight list, • yet
they didn't generate a single reply.  So the 'importance' or 'merit' of • a
post can't always be measured by the number of follow-ups it gets.

This just sparked an idea...

As an nntp user, the sportlights are almost invisible to me. Would it be
possible to autogenerate a crosspost of some sort when a post makes the
spotlight list?

Just something to mull over...

interesting idea...  something like the server statistics, posting once a
day to a group, listing the top stories?  I think I like it :)

Dan



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  Re: I miss the old LUGNET...
 
(...) Perhaps something like this? (URL) article is nearly two years old! Fredrik (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: I miss the old LUGNET...
 
(...) I think this would be groovy, and I've got my own 0.02USD to toss in... 1. Choose a new newsgroup name carefully. My newsreader (Forte Agent) sorts my list of subscribed groups alphabetically. So "lugnet.spotlight" would get buried in the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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