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Re: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:58:23 GMT
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JSPROAT@avoidspamGEOCITIES.COM
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> > No, separate the discussions from these groups. It's extremely
> > frustrating to find source when it's scattered amongst ten times more
> > messages discussing it, discussing realted threads, discussing off-topic
> > threads, flaming, etc.
> How strongly do you really feel about that?
Pretty strong. I have given up for now looking for real content on
news://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files because 95%+ of the messages
are nothing but discussion, requests, and flames (not the POVRay kind,
unfortunately).
> 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 collapse-thread button in one's newsreader, or by
> clicking to the top node if reading via the web interface.
Nope. Murphey's Law #327: If there's nothing stopping someone from posting
DAT content in a sub-thread, it will happen a lot.
> Here are the usability problems that I encountered --
> [snip]
Fooey -- that durned user-error issue.
Is there any way to regulate the newsgroups with DAT content?
Another thought: Do you store the DAT content separately from the other ng
files, or can you get a listing of them fairly easily? If you can make your
search engine find posts with DAT content, I think that would solve my
issue.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"I prefer the term para-mental. It keeps me out of the loony bin."
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