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Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:39:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Schilling writes:
Lugnet keeps track of what articles you've read (or at least looked at), so
why not make this available to the user?  Rather than relying on your
browser history, this would let you more easily see which articles you've
read, and which you haven't.

Well, I dunno if there's extra code on Lugnet to store this info (it may
consume a significant amount of disk space), but in general for message
boards such as Lugnet, this information is *not* stored on the server, it's
all handled by the client, whether that be a browser, email client or a
newsreader.

ROSCO



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  Re: Marking articles as 'read'
 
(...) Read the second ref and posts near it in the tree, including Todd's comments, LUGNET already knows (still does, even though the rating system was modified) who has rated posts and thus could know all history for all readers of the web (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Marking articles as 'read'
 
Lugnet keeps track of what articles you've read (or at least looked at), so why not make this available to the user? Rather than relying on your browser history, this would let you more easily see which articles you've read, and which you haven't. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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