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(...) I'd be happy with .announce.moc. As you say, you get the choice with the view plain - us technic-heads have already had to get used to this with bionicle 8?/ and it's OK once you get used to it. Just means you've gotta individually check all (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New announce.moc group needed? (Was: Bulk Lego Auctions)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GpIu2r.4zr@lugnet.com... (...) MOCs. (...) laws (...) The MOC posts in .announce continue despite Todd's word on it. Will Todd take futher action to enforce what he said? Is it (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yep, this was suggested elsewhere in the thread and it has a lot of merit. My preference would be for build.announce as that keeps the announce tree low traffic. (yes, you could view .announce without subgroups but then you miss (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hello Larry, hello everybody, I would suggest to create a new group lugnet.announce.moc. Most of the postings some people find unappropriate for any of the other lugnet.announce.* groups could probably fit there ... Greetings Horst (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Allan Bedford writes: <mostly well considered and not disagreed to by me so I snipped it> except for this: (...) No, it *isn't* just my opinion... it seems to be the opinion of the person who wrote the charter. And he ought (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think this is where we may have gotten off track Larry. I *suspect* you may be very interested in having the charter(s) updated as a way of addressing your pet peeve(s). And this is should have been understood by me. It wasn't and I (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Would having a link in the nntp headers to the groups charter (as a 'X-' line) be of any help? It'd allow you to go to any post and click on it and get the charter. Since the Web already has a equivalent (the link in corner thing) so it could (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This was a good suggestion, and needs to be expanded to the web interface: On the page for posting a message, there could be either the entire text of the charter for the group being posted/replied to, or at least a link to it. To cover (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) heh, heard ya the first time, and I like the idea... I'll see if I can find time to code this... :) Dan (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, unless the charter was revised in a later message. I made this suggestion earlier, but I think it got lost in the noise so I'll repeat it: what if the confirmation e-mail contained text asking the user to make sure the message complies (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'll take Todd's interpretation over yours, thanks. Hence my cite. You may want to read it. Here it is again for your convenience: (...) But it is a different question from whether some posts to .announce are currently in violation of the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm. You deleted my point rather than answer it... funny that. (...) I'm not so sure. It is all a matter of interpretation. ;) Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's broke, unless the charter is changed. (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well that depends on how much "extra precedence" is given. That point aside, perhaps a cynic would admit that the fact that more than half of the last 100 messages have been highlight/spotlighted is quite impressive. Is any other group better? (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) yes, it's autogenerated, from the database's idea of what the charter is for that group. Dan (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes: <snip> From: (URL) precedence is given to announcements and lower to administravia, market, and off-topic messages. " 8 out of 10 proves only that the algorithm is working as designed, and boosting (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It appears that you are more cynical than I. However, even a cynic has to admit that 8/10 is a good strike rate... Scott A (who is not one bit cynical) (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Right. The algorithm for determining the entries into top stories automatically gives heavier weight to stuff posted into .announce... a fine example of the law of unintended consequences, subclass "you get what you measure for"... ++Lar (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (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 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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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