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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Chris Giddens wrote: (SNIPPED) (...) Let me repeat. off-topic.geek is NOT an appropriate place to have this discussion. What Chris posted really starts to veer into an .admin topic, actually, as it touches on community (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ehh, I think you've got Scott wrong on this one. His post is a friendly joke pointed at someone Scott knows quite well. (...) If you wanna nail someone who's "moderatin'" then go after me. I've been after post bumpers quite a bit. Dunno why it (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Setting FUT appropriately (was Re: Ministry Of Information Retrieval
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(...) .geek isn't an appropriate FUT in my view(1) and I would appreciate it, should there be someone that needs to comment further, that it either stay where it was, or go to the appropriate admin group if the issue seems to need that level of (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
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(...) Hmmm - never used netnewswire - but can't you have it display the author tag? I've seen other readers do that, bloglines.com for instance. (...) Looking at yesterday's stats[1] (which misleadingly, have today's date), that's about 180 posts. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:HztLvG.qA7@lugnet.com... (...) And now it is fixed! (URL) Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com (URL) - North Carolina LEGO Train Club (URL) - Carolina Train Builders (URL) - (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks - I've been using this to stay on top of LUGNET and it works great. I use NetNewsWire Lite on MAC OS X, if you care. Couple things I'd like to see though: * Put back the "by Author Name" in the title - the author isn't displayed (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Is there a 'category' in RSS? (...) Well, that, and the fact that the author tag is _required_ to have a valid email address in it. :) Dan (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) For now, you could put the newsgroup in the category. (...) I woulda been happy with just the name, but I guess a programmer aint gonna ignore a challenge ;) (...) Yippee!! Thanks Dan. (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nope, just me being braindead. Fixed now (though getting the email address proved more of a challenge than I expected). (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) To do that properly though, I'd have to actually keep a history of every lugnet post - otherwise, if there weren't any train posts in the last 20, the train specific RSS feed would be empty. Not terrible, but not exactly desireable. Not saying (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Right - but that would end up with several thousand feeds, which almost no one actually reads. Not sure what the solution is - perhaps RSS (or Atom) support a "category" concept, and then allow on the client side to filter by category? Then we (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) separate author tags, is there a reason for that? ROSCO (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you use an RSS reader to follow blogs, it fits nicely in that mold. At first I agreed with you - there's no structure... but it's so painless to view it in an RSS reader, that the lack of structure isn't really a problem. You just skip the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oops, sorry about that. Two unrelated, but similar issues have been resolved. Everything should be fine now. Thanks for the heads up. Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster - BIP (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) These don't work for me when I load them into a RSS client. I get a list of entries, but I just get the homepage no matter what entry I click on. --Bill (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Why not just say "we, Yahoo, want everyone to use our client so we can send them ads and popups and keep users from thinking about using other IM services" instead of giving some gafla about spim. They can say whatever they want, if it's true, (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is a nuisance. I like using Trillian for IM. (URL) Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com (URL) - North Carolina LEGO Train Club (URL) - Carolina Train Builders (URL) - CTB/Brick Depot (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's a funky character issue. When you take the funky characters that are used in Web sites (smart quotes, for instance) dump them as is into an RSS feed, the browser, and often many readers kick back on it. It doesn't look like, at this (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20040623184606....ron.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Maybe a few specific feeds can be defined and made available. For the ILTCO web site I am achieving roughly the same (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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