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Re: Where did you lot spring from?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 2 May 2000 23:11:29 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> I wasn't nessesarily referring to lugnet on this, just making a general
> statement about the way things seem to be [unfortunately].
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> 1 thing that springs to mind though, is the number of posts regarding things
> like WalMart, and other sales. These messages, which are only of intrest to
> the US always get posted in .general. Unfortunately, nothing gets done about
> having these either posted in .loc.us, or.market.shopping/wherever. This
> makes it hard to sift through .general looking for anything. [Admittedly, I
> can't recall what is allowed to be posted in .general regarding sales, but I
> feel that this sort of posting would be better in .loc.us, and .market, not
> .general, and I try to keep news of Aus sales in .loc.au, so as not to cause
> offense to people who would have no intrest in this.]
OK, good point. Thanks. Hadn't noticed that, and wouldn't've seen any
problem if Aus sales had been posted in .general either. But now that you
mention it, announcements of sales and such ARE rather off-topic to .general.
> Also, due to there being more americans on lugnet, everything seems aimed at
> making their life easier. For someone from Australia who is new to lugnet,
> but has been collecting lego for some years, a set name like crocodile
> engine would mean nothing, as the set was called 'FEDERAL RAILWAY ENGINE'
> when it was released here in 1991. However, on Lugnet and pause (and most
> other pages), all reference to sets is given in a way that makes it easy for
> US-ers to use, but at the expense of the rest of the world. [Even a link on
> the set info page on pause, with a list of official names the set has had in
> different countries would be a nice gesture to the rest of the world, and
> help prove that the lugnet/pause site isn't only about US info.]
OK, gotcha. Thanks the for examples. Starting to see what you mean.
Part of the set-DB restructuring BTW is to include locale-specific names for
sets and to index on multiple locales. What do you think BTW of the two-
haracter locale designators shown here on one of Joshua Delahunty's review
pages?--
http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~dulcaoin/reviews/noframes/6987-1.html
I think it's great to be able to see multiple names in such a way. Jim Hughes
does something similar on his pages, for example:
http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/index/800/850.html
but uses both 2- and 3-character locale abbreviations. I think what Jim also
did with the dual set numbers shown is tops.
--Todd
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