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Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 4 Jan 2002 04:51:32 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, William R. Ward writes:
> > I don't know what the ratios are as to who uses the web vs. nntp
> > interfaces, but for people using nntp there is no easy way to access
> > the charter of a newsgroup.
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> Is it true that there's no easy way? When I was viewing lugnet via NNTP I
> had my newsreader set to never discard posts (that was a long time ago, it
> took a lot less space than it would now) so I could go look at post #1 in a
> group without too much trouble at all.
Is it always in message #1? What if the charter has been revised at
some point later on? It's easy in my newsreader (emacs+gnus) to jump
to message #1, or any message in the group I'm reading if I know its
number, but I didn't think that was necessarily guaranteed to do the
trick. But this is highly newsreader-dependent.
[...]
> Now, the above is *consistent* but it isn't necessarily easy to remember, or
> easy to discover, for a newbie... So ya, maybe there's no handy way to
> review charters. What do you suggest could alleviate that?
I can't think of anything - the NNTP interface doesn't really allow
for it.
One possibility might be to have the e-mail confirmation include the
URL of the charter, and instructions that you should review the
charter before confirming your post?
> If we want people to abide by charters and use them to select the correct
> group to post in, it ought to be easy to examine several charters, yes?
I agree.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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| (...) Because of revisions, the most current charter is not always post #1 but with a news reader you should be able to sort by topic. Locate message #1 and then sort to see if others show up with the same topic heading. With a news reader this is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
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| (...) Charters are always post #1. One thing to remember is that while Lugnet appears to be an NNTP server with an e-mail interface and a very nifty web interface, it's really a huge data base, with NNTP, e-mail, and web interfaces. Requesting post (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Is it true that there's no easy way? When I was viewing lugnet via NNTP I had my newsreader set to never discard posts (that was a long time ago, it took a lot less space than it would now) so I could go look at post #1 in a group without too (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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