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Subject:	Re: lugnet.sports
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp
Date:	Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:58:59 GMT
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Bruce Hietbrink wrote in message ... > At least using a web browser as an interface, if you read the .castle group > you see the .castle.ninja posts as well. So if a theme had subgroups for > the subthemes they would all still show up in the more general group. Any > other MOC that fell outside of the subthemes would just go in the more > general group. So a custom baseball stadium would go in .sports rather • than > into any .sports.whatever. > I'm not sure how all of this works using other interfaces, though. In NNTP, you only see the specific group, not its subgroups - they come up as a separate group. And remembering what happened when NNTP was down some time ago - the posting rate dropped noticeably - I think a lot of people use NNTP and that needs to be kept in mind. See this thread: http://news.lugnet.com/admin/nntp/?n=911 Kevin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW Cottage kit, 577 pieces! http://www.lionsgatemodels.com/cat-cott.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGO TOWN PLANNING information: http://www.lionsgatemodels.com/COntent/Townplan/townplan.htm BrickLink Lego parts store: http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=Kevinw1 The Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): http://www.bricksmiths.com Personal Lego Web page: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kwilson_tccs/lego.html

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		Re: lugnet.sports
(...) In that case I would urge against sub-categorization. I doubt there will be such a huge amount of traffic to merit it anyway. Over on fbtb there have been on the order of 80 sports-related posts over the last month (two major threads (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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		Re: lugnet.sports
(...) At least using a web browser as an interface, if you read the .castle group you see the .castle.ninja posts as well. So if a theme had subgroups for the subthemes they would all still show up in the more general group. Any other MOC that fell (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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