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Subject: 
Re: I miss the old LUGNET...
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lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 5 Nov 2001 18:00:24 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
Seriously, I've had one or two posts that got onto the Spotlight list, yet
they didn't generate a single reply.  So the 'importance' or 'merit' of a
post can't always be measured by the number of follow-ups it gets.

This just sparked an idea...

As an nntp user, the sportlights are almost invisible to me. Would it be
possible to autogenerate a crosspost of some sort when a post makes the
spotlight list?

Just something to mull over...

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: I miss the old LUGNET...
 
(...) I figure there's some fixed probability of any one post getting a response, so I beat the odds by posting a lot. Sooner or later, someone's *gotta* respond to something I say... It also helps that I'm not afraid to occasionally post obviously (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)

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