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Re: lugnet.market.mess
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:06:26 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
"Kevin Salm" <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> writes:
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Larry Pieniazek writes:
Except that ads should not be rooted in the same hierarchy as discussion.
This raises the same (problem? mistake?) that occurred with announce and
announce.moc... web viewing market.brickshops will also show the contents of
brickshops.ads

I fail to see the problem with .announce.moc - the MOC's are a subset
of announcements.  There is no discussion in .announce.  I agree that
they should be separate, but I don't think that's a good analogy.

.announce.moc was CREATED to keep traffic out of .announce. It basically
(due to the technology) fails to do that for web users. Point your browser
at .announce and you see announce.moc traffic as well. Simple as that... it
fails to keep traffic out of announce. Yes yes you can get a 'no subgroups'
view but it's not the default. If we are going to reorg things, reorg them
so that this is not a problem.

I'll go into more depth later if that doesn't help clear up my point.



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  Re: lugnet.market.mess
 
(...) I wonder if it's time to change the default. I'm thinking the main place where I would see value is when the subgroups shouldn't really exist in the first place, such as some .loc groups (the way NC works for example, we would actually be (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  lugnet.announce.moc [was: Re: lugnet.market.mess]
 
(...) I believe the main reason was not so much to avoid that problem, as to keep MOC's from crowding other announcements out of the "top stories" sidebar on the LUGNET home page. I understand that lugnet.announce posts are given automatically (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Re: lugnet.market.mess
 
(...) I fail to see the problem with .announce.moc - the MOC's are a subset of announcements. There is no discussion in .announce. I agree that they should be separate, but I don't think that's a good analogy. (...) I disagree with the idea of (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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