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    Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy —Dan Boger
   I like the idea of better indexing, and would be happy to incorporate any new method into peeron - now someone just has to write it :) I know that indexing by a non-unique field (which is the part number) is a bad thing - it's just the easiest and (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
   
        Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy —Geoffrey Hyde
     (URL) would what you're saying allow more obvious names like "worm gear" - as I think of it, because that's what it logically interacts with and looks like to me, at least - help me to find that name for a part often used in gear-reduction (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
    
         Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy —Dan Boger
     (...) that part (and it's name) come from partsref - we try to use partsref names whenever we can, unless it's for a part that isn't available as a dat yet. But even for X numbers (our custom parts), we will eventually rename them to whatever the (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
    
         Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy —Steve Bliss
      (...) Hey, don't go blaming poor Partsref for something that's an LDraw problem. ;) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
     
          Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy —Dan Boger
      (...) doh, you're right. Everyone, please don't complain to Steve about the names in Partsref, just complain to Steve about the names in LDraw :P <G,D&R> (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
    
         Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy —Geoffrey Hyde
      "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:Gw0027.A1p@lugnet.com... (...) You mean ldraw, perhaps, as someone else pointed out? (...) so (...) That's basically what I was after - "common sense" names (keywords) for commonly sought-after (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
   
        Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy —Mark D. McKean
   (...) I'd be happy to be a part of the development of such a system, but I don't have the time to do it on my own or be in charge of a group effort. So if someone volunteers to head up such a project, be sure to post it here. (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
 

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