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(...) What does the Refer header mean? Say, due to what we figured out on the other thread, we can nix the Locations and Newsgroups headers, and just keep the Subject and Author headers. But doesn't the date belong on the same line is the author?... (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Format of FAQ items
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(...) What about an outline format? I made a cool little utility that displays, in outline format, any sub-tree of the global ng tree...so from any category sub-homepage you can see what's there beneath it -- especially handy for things like loc (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) I like index.* over title.* too. (...) The funny thing to me is the strange and unpredictable sequence that things have been unfolding in. It's not that it's got a life of its own which is not under any of our control to choose the sequencing, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Format of FAQ items
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(...) Let me expand on this. It all depends on how it's converted into readable form. A one-file FAQ would certainly slurp everything in. An HTML conversion might take just the question titles to put up on the first page. Or maybe just the section's (...) (26 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: obLEGO
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(...) It's the repeated, frustrated sound you make when you open a Town Jr. set. It indicates a state of sticker shock. :-, Actually, "ob" is an abbreviation of "obligatory". Among other things, it's an old Usenet trick to insert an on-topic remark (...) (26 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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