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| | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) I have to talk with Suzanne about it first. She's not feeling well this week so I haven't had a chance yet. --Todd (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) This being .debate, I'm going to continue to ask you to be more specific. What exactly is it that bothers you about Yahoo? I don't see buying up services and systems in order to extend the reach of what Yahoo is able to offer Yahoo users as (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | (...) I'm having some minor trouble passing this gnat. I was hinting that Yahoo was the One Ring to bind all, etc. Communities like LUGNET, OTOH, would be the rag-tag army of light to eventually defeat Sauron and his minions. :-, re: gnats & (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) Alrighty. (...) My problems with Yahoo are as follows: 1) Moral issues - I haven't experienced the porn banner ads personally, but from Jeremy's description its abhorring to me and I want nothing to to with a company who shoves smut down (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | (...) I should probably clarify this statement. I'm not saying that I know how much programming or effort it will take Todd to do this, and I realize that his time pretty much equals money here. I'm making a half-assumption here based on what we (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) He said it wouldn't, IIRC... and that's good enough for me. However, small!=0. That said, if Todd can't set his priorities ultimately (after taking input and evaluating it) as he sees fit, it's not going to be much fun for Todd here, is it? (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) It would be more fun if I was making money by doing this (LUGNET), so that's always a factor, but this is also something Tim and I had talked about a few months back as a then-distant possibility. It's less distant after having figured out (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | (...) Also eGroups, though I don't think that deal is totally complete yet. Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Air Market: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | (...) Wonderful....just...wonderful. I feel fer ya, WAMALUG and SeaLUG. -Tim (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | First off, let's separate the move of the ring out of the discussion. I'm coming around to the viewpoint that for valid technical, feature building, and community reasons, moving the ring to LUGNET is a good idea, relatively low cost to Todd and (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) Well...a couple days ago I had a reply half written on the web interface, but unfortunately a computer freeze made me lose it. Here I go again, after I've had a bit more time to think it through :) (...) I'm no one to tell them what they (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Todd Lehman
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| | | | [Added .publish to ng list; IMHO, this is actually more on-topic to .publish than it is to .off-topic.debate...] (...) Wow, wait, so lemme see if I can get this straight -- ? -- under the new Yahoo! Webring system, your ring logo has to be no bigger (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) Here's a sample page: (URL) not as bad as I originally feared - but the limited logo size and standardized navbar is a definite drawback to the new system. I'm SHOCKED that Yahoo wasn't mentioned ANYWHERE on the code. I'm still beefing (though (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Tom Stangl
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| | | | I'm confused - what do you mean you can't customize it? The links are all standard links, just rewrite the tables, and make it look any way you want. Or are you saying that that would violate their TOS or something? (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) Its all javascript, generated from the Yahoo server. All they give you is a small tag for javascript, then Yahoo spits out that content for you. Eg. if you aren't a member of the ring (not approved yet), all that will show up will be the top (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Transclusion via JavaScript (was: Re: Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) Interesting from an HTML/geek point of view! So, in the real shebang, they give something akin to <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="(URL) blah blah </SCRIPT> and then they, what, look at the siteid within the ringid and spit out either the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Transclusion via JavaScript (was: Re: Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net) —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | | "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1Cpxr.Cqt@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) they (...) [script snipped] (...) had (...) JS (...) I'd (...) of (...) nasties. This is exactly what I do to generate my pages. My provider doesn't (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Tom Stangl
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| | | | Right, but once Yahoo has spit out that content, you save it, and modify it any way you want to. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Resolved: Yahoo is good for the 'net (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Sure, and then when someone clicks "next" or "previous" for that Ring ID, the Yahoo! server sees that the corresponding JS code for that Ring ID and Site ID hasn't been fetched recently by that IP address, and it gacks (by design) and it sends (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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