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Re: The LEGO Company is invited to post everywhere!
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Date: 
Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:59:59 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
In lugnet.lego, Rob Hendrix writes:
Can all messages from anyone with a lego.com address be automatically
crossposted to .lego so we don't have to go searching for posts in every
group?

Hrm...  In order for this to happen, the lugnet.lego newsgroup would have
to be added to the 'Newsgroup:' header on an official @lego.com post (if
it's not already included explicitly by the poster) -- so that the post
would actually appear in the group -- and that's not a problem per se, but
then what happens when someone replies to the post?  Every reply would then
go into the .lego newsgroup.  To avoid that, the 'Followup-To:' header could
be set or munged as well to remove .lego from the list, but the 'Followup-To'
header doesn't guarantee anything -- it's only a suggestion to the newsreader
application.

Perhaps some other kind of constructed index would serve the purpose?
For example, what if there were a webpage you could go to and see all
the @lego.com messages?  Of what if you could specify arbitrary criteria
by which certain messages would automatically be selected and brought to
your attention?

I think that both of these are good ideas.  Maybe a lugnet.index.*
hierarchy?  Where all messages are magically appearing based on some
criteria?

I don't think user-level support is necessary and the UI would be a
mess to put together.  But certain system-wide index groups, like the
lego.com or lugnet.com ones, might not be a bad idea.

This could be a way to monetize Lugnet: charge money to have an index
set up.  For example the Bricksmiths might get one...

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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