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Subject: 
Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:56:07 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes: • ...
Each group's web
page should also be sure to point to the charter for that group (or even
have the charter on the web page directly, charters aren't big).

I agree.


...But providing a link to the whole thing is a good idea too,
and I've done that for trains and trains.org. I suggest other curators
consider it as well.

I disagree.

Rather than each curator adding a link, the charter link should be part of
the page. At the bottom of the page, there are already a link to 'Terms of
Use'. 'Newsgoup Charter' would be a natural next to that.

If it is left up to the curator, the links are unlikely to be consistent
looking and consistently placed. Besides, not all groups have curators, so
it doesn't solve the problem across the board.

Cary



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
 
(...) <snip> it is. The charter for each newsgroup is in the top left corner of the page for that newsgroup. Which makes Larry's link redundant, although it does prove that charter messages are not modified to reflect the updated charter for a (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq)
  Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
 
(...) (should have said "as a stopgap") (...) Good idea. (...) Agreed. but as as stopgap, seems better than nothing. It's still not clear to me if the text that appears at the top is the group specific text from the original charter, from the latest (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
 
(...) GREAT idea. (...) Well, many groups have a blurb at the top which is the group specific part of the charter. But providing a link to the whole thing is a good idea too, and I've done that for trains and trains.org. I suggest other curators (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)

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