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Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:32:35 GMT
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"Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com> wrote in message
news:GpErx5.HCE@lugnet.com...
> 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.
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> A quick look at .announce shows that the group consistently receives
> highlighted posts:
> http://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=,-100&v=c
I have also just noticed that 8/10 of the "top stories" are from .announce.
Scott A
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> 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.
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> Scott A
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> (BTW : Nice site Allan)
> (BTW2 : CNN is not news, it is entertainment)
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> > ___
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| (...) Messages posted to a .announce group show up in the "top stories" much more quickly than mssages not in an .announce group. My cynical nature suggests to me that this is at least partly the reason it is posted to (inappropriately) so often. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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: (URL) on this, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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