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Re: LDraw announcements/updates
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:07:27 GMT
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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 03:37:43 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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> In lugnet.cad.dev, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> > > Thought:
> > > If someone makes an install file for Ldraw, can they put in an email
> > > registration feature that lets one of us know who downloaded it and
> > > where to contact them so they can get update notifications and more
> > > so we can keep track of approximately how many use it..etc..? What
> > > do you think..?
> >
> > It would be possible, if we wanted to set up a mailing list...
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> If a separate mailing list were set up for update notifications, then
> everything would have to be posted to two places (there and here).
Todd, it was a joke. We just moved in here, right?
> Another possibility: Simply create .cad.announce or .cad.updates for
> this purpose. That way anyone could get the info via e-mail or via news,
> and you could direct followups to a discussion group like lugnet.cad or
> lugnet.cad.dev as appropriate.
That's an interesting idea. Can people subscribe via e-mail without
visiting the web-pages (even if it means they can't post?)
> Take the recently created S@H announcements ng for example -- many people
> are happy to read it via news, but there are 27 people who receive the info
> in their e-mail inbox first thing Monday morning. I think that's pretty
> neat! Before yesterday, BTW, the S@H announcements ng was the most common
> ng to subscribe to via e-mail.
But that's because most robotics-heads are subscribed through the
stand-alone mail-list server.
Steve
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| (...) Sorry! -- I'm humor-impaired sometimes without the aid of smileys. Anyway, it seemed like a legitimate/logical suggestion to me, at least in terms of the bottom line -- a low-bandwidth information-dispersal venue for updates. (...) No, all (...) (28 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) If a separate mailing list were set up for update notifications, then everything would have to be posted to two places (there and here). Another possibility: Simply create .cad.announce or .cad.updates for this purpose. That way anyone could (...) (28 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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