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| (...) Welp, it feels nice to move around in, but it SURE feels disjointed from the rest of the CAD stuff, which makes it no fun at all in the final analysis. Cross-linkages could repair some of that, but that's just a band-aid, and it would just (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Todd: (...) [...] I think this looks pretty good. It felt a bit wrong to leave out LDraw from the names, but since it isn't the only program handling DAT files this makes sense. (...) Assuming discussions and data are kept together. Would it be easy (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I like the above groups and follow-ups quite well. You might consider adding lugnet.cad.dat.models.alt (followup-to lugnet.cad). (...) Unless you wanted a lugnet.cad-dat.* heirarchy. Either way works. (...) IMHO the main reason for dividing up (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I'm inclined to say so, esp. since so much has been posted to this sub-tree already. (...) No, separate the discussions from these groups. It's extremely frustrating to find source when it's scattered amongst ten times more messages discussing (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Even if Todd implemented a "DAT file only" view of each of these groups on the web site? Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Urgle, y'all. Please disregard this comment. It was typed by my evil clone as I watched -- duct-taped to the carpet and helpless with a bundle of phone cable in my mouth -- and prayed for this Monday morning to be over soon. :-P What my evil (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I would smile upon that; but still, I do most of my reading through my nntp client. There has to be a way of separating the posted models from the discussions related to them. If there could be a "DAT file only" virtual ng to reflect just the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) How strongly do you really feel about that? It seems to me that all one has to do to find the source is to climb to the top of the thread tree, which can be done by looking for the absence of "Re:" in the Subject line, or by clicking the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Well, that would kind of bring things full-circle then, huh? :) The reason for dividing up .cad.dat, BTW, is (a) to help organize [at a very superficial first-order layer] postings about parts, models, ideas, etc., and (b) to help focus the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) How do you follow the threads across groups? What newsreader do you use? What do you do when you're in the .cad.dat group and you want to see if there are any followups yet to the post you're reading? When you do find a model in the .cad.dat (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Sproaticus skrev i meddelandet <372473FF.4BCB8A59@g...es.com>... (...) That is, (...) namely (...) frustrating (...) threads, (...) find the (...) ng. (...) OTOH, it would be easier to follow the discussion, if the model _and_ discussion is in the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Just as a side note, when I encounter the same situation, I just press "^" to see the original article, even if it is in a different newsgroup. Some readers (software) may not support this feature, which probably makes this practice annoying, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Netscape Communicator 4.5 handles it pretty well. (...) I open up .cad in a new window. (...) Good point. If I want instant gratification, I use the Web interface. Can you implement a way to make the messages with DAT content stand out on the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Pretty strong. I have given up for now looking for real content on news://news.povray.o...cene-files because 95%+ of the messages are nothing but discussion, requests, and flames (not the POVRay kind, unfortunately). (...) Nope. Murphey's Law (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Netscape has this feature. In the header section of a ng message window, there is a line called References, which has a comma-delimited list of links to messages previous to the current one. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| This is an interesting discussion. I think it points out both the many different technologies and interfaces people are using to access the newsgroups, and the different viewing habits we have developed based on the interfaces we use and our (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:MPG.11916e86f5f...net.com... (...) Once the LDLite/web interface thing got going, I stopped viewing models from the newsreader. The other day, I decided that was kinda dumb because it only (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yes. I'm thinking that the safest & quickest (at runtime) approach will be to embed a special header into the NNTP article stream just as it's being injected by the newsserver (similar to the way the default Followup-To field is automatically (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yup, I think that's the right idea*. Models can be posted to the groups and links can be made from outside the groups into the data inside the groups, and that's how the true repository can be built. At first glance, that sounds kind of gross, (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) One of my talents as a UI-guy is to be able to forget things like that and go into situations fresh. (Maybe I did too much LDS at Berkeley. ;-) (...) True, even with discussions in the .dat groups, there will still be the occasional need, to (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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