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Subject: 
Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:03:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Salm writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, William R. Ward writes:
"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.

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.


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 even easier than with HHTP.

If this is a problem, and I'm not sure it is, I'm sure Todd could have the
server automatically re-post the charter every X days or N posts.

A quick look at .announce shows that the group consistently receives
highlighted posts:
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=,-100&v=c

Based on this, it looks like members have little real problem with its
operation. Sure some people may not like all the posts in the group, but it
looks like others may. Nobody is forced to read anything here.

If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.

Scott A

(BTW : Nice site Allan)
(BTW2 : CNN is not news, it is entertainment)






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