Grex Oldcoop Conference

Item 349: A suggestion

Entered by scholar on Sun Aug 6 15:25:39 2006:

What about creating links to old agora conferences based on the months they
were active in?  It's a bit of a pain in the ass to sort through all the
serially numbered agoras, especially when not all of them were actually for
a single season and junk.
32 responses total.
#1 of 32 by mcnally on Sun Aug 6 17:31:10 2006:

 Since people tend to associate them seasonally, rather than months
 it might make sense to use the season they ran for, e.g. "spring2005"
 or "winter2003".  Otherwise it seems like a decent suggestion.

#2 of 32 by naftee on Sun Aug 6 22:29:42 2006:

I think this is an excellent suggestion.

#3 of 32 by trig on Mon Aug 7 01:29:39 2006:

montly would be easier to deal with and cut down on the total amount of crap
one had to sort through.

#4 of 32 by nharmon on Mon Aug 7 01:32:50 2006:

Who is montly?

#5 of 32 by scholar on Mon Aug 7 02:31:43 2006:

montly crue

#6 of 32 by gelinas on Mon Aug 7 03:36:47 2006:

Since an entire season's items and responses are maintained in a single file,
monthly links would NOT cut down on the material a reader would be faced
with.  However, monthly links *would* quadruple the number of links required
(four instead of one) for each season.

#7 of 32 by scholar on Mon Aug 7 03:41:15 2006:

Okay.

Try reading this item before responding next time.

#8 of 32 by gelinas on Mon Aug 7 03:52:35 2006:

So I re-read the item.  Now, are you asking for something like "Dec05Mar06"
for Winter2005?  Or are you asking for "Dec2005," "Jan2006," Feb2006," and
"Mar2006" for that version of agora?

#9 of 32 by scholar on Mon Aug 7 21:29:57 2006:

Basically, yeah.

Though mcnally's suggestion of seasonal links is fine too.

#10 of 32 by ric on Tue Aug 15 13:53:57 2006:

McNally's suggestion makes far more sense.  

I thought gelinas' response was a direct response to #3, not to #0

#11 of 32 by scholar on Tue Aug 15 16:03:44 2006:

LISTEN IF YOU"RE GOING AROUND BEING AN ASSHOLE THERE"S NO WAY I"M BUYING YOUR
FUCKING HARRDDRIVE

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#12 of 32 by scholar on Tue Aug 15 16:05:12 2006:

also, gelinas's response does't make sense because it uses 'quadrupling the
links' as an argument against it, but who the fuck cares about quadrupling
the links, we're not about to run out of dick space?

#13 of 32 by naftee on Tue Aug 15 20:11:56 2006:

unlucky

#14 of 32 by cross on Fri Aug 25 21:36:58 2006:

Regarding #12; I understand you have limited dick space.  Please, use that
resource optimally.

Being able to "join mar2006" and have it take you to the correct conference
would be nice, but it seems clear that the intent of #0 is to be able to join
the appropriate agora without searching through a bunch of numbers...

#15 of 32 by tod on Fri Aug 25 22:10:50 2006:

This conference has plenty of dick space apparently.

#16 of 32 by scholar on Fri Aug 25 22:49:10 2006:

re. 14:  i'm asking for the exactly same thing: typing 'join mar2006' and
having it take you there.

this cuts down on having to search through a bunch of numbers too, though.

agora1, agora2, agora...

#17 of 32 by cross on Sat Aug 26 00:14:43 2006:

Regarding #16; I agree.  I think a problem with the month problem is that grex
agora is restarted based on seaons, and seaons don't necessarily begin and
end on a month boundary.  So what about a month that contains two seasons,
and thus spans two agoras?  Where should that take you?

#18 of 32 by cmcgee on Sat Aug 26 01:53:30 2006:

I'd like to see "join fall2005" or a similar option.

#19 of 32 by scholar on Sat Aug 26 05:43:01 2006:

re. 17:  SEE MCNALLY"S RESPONSE AND MY AGREEMENT THAT IT"S A BETTER SOLUTION

THOUGH ALSO SEE EARLY AGORAS AND HOW THEY DON"T FOLLOW SEASONS

#20 of 32 by cross on Sat Aug 26 08:59:44 2006:

I saw that.  But I was still asking the question.

#21 of 32 by naftee on Sat Aug 26 16:49:07 2006:

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#22 of 32 by naftee on Sat Aug 26 16:51:03 2006:

re  19 They do.

#23 of 32 by scholar on Sun Aug 27 01:36:14 2006:

re. 20:  ASK ANY QUESTION YOU WANT< SUIR

THIS IS A FREE AND OPEN DEMOCRAcY

#24 of 32 by ric on Mon Aug 28 19:29:25 2006:

I agree that being able to "join spring2005" would be nice.

maybe with "spring05" as an alternative.  Not very Y2100 friendly.

#25 of 32 by ric on Mon Aug 28 19:30:26 2006:

(of course, "join spring2005" isn't very Y10k friendly either)

#26 of 32 by remmers on Mon Aug 28 19:33:57 2006:

I agree with #1 - aliases like "winter1995" make sense.  Implementing
them involves a simple-minded, albeit tedious, edit to the /bbs/conflist
file.  Maybe I'll do this next time I'm in the mood for something
simple-minded and tedious.

#27 of 32 by naftee on Mon Aug 28 20:16:20 2006:

i think steVE should do it.

#28 of 32 by drew on Tue Aug 29 00:26:00 2006:

Symbolic links ought to do the trick.

#29 of 32 by scholar on Tue Aug 29 01:26:33 2006:

no.

if you're trying to be helpful with a really simple thing, try to at least
get it right.

#30 of 32 by naftee on Tue Aug 29 02:50:54 2006:

AJHAJAJAJA<M ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOUR COCK ?

BECAUSE GETTING IT UP AUGHT TO BE A SIMPLE THING< BUT I DON"T THINK DREW WOULD
BE HELPFUL IN THAT RESPECT< AHAHAHAHAA?>>A>>A> oh man i crack myself up

#31 of 32 by remmers on Wed Aug 30 16:26:50 2006:

Re #28: Actually, I doubt that symbolic links would work.  In order for
a conference to be joinable under a particular name, that name has to
appear in /bbs/conflist.

(Although an ancient version of Picospan (circa mid-1980s) didn't use a
conflist file; M-Net users could create bootleg conferences in their
home directories, and often did, much to the consternation of Mike Myers.)

#32 of 32 by ric on Wed Nov 15 18:10:00 2006:

Is that where the attik was, in someone's home directory?

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