A Conversation for Good News/Bad News - thread synopsis to 23rd August 1999
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3Syllables Posted Aug 24, 1999
Yes i agree well done 
have a fish for no perticular reason !
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Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here Posted Aug 25, 1999
A magazine In New Zealand is running NZs 1st on-line, web-constructed, short story competition.
I am editing Good News Bad News and will enter it in the competition. 
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shazzPRME Posted Aug 25, 1999
yes....go for it L&PP 
We could do with more kind people making synopses I have a couple on my page that could use the treatment 
shazz
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Mark Moxon Posted Sep 7, 1999
One thing that concerns me is that you're duplicating information that could simply be pointed to with a link.
Now if you want to do a useful synopsis, why not take all the related bits of the story and mong them into one article that reads properly, and maybe colour each part differently (alternating white/yellow) so we can see where people changed over. Then list the researchers' names at the end.
It's a good idea, but what's on this page is no more useful than a link to the forum itself. And there's one of those too...
Or am I missing the point?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 23, 1999
Sorry for taking so long to respond, but I only just noticed the replies...
Mark, it was intended as an experiment in finding a format to show the thread in - a one-off, to see if people liked the way it looked. Given enough encouragement, I could probably produce a PERL script to display an arbitary thread in this format, without any duplication of information in the database.
You didn't really miss the point - I just failed to express it clearly enough...
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 23, 1999
Which leads me to why I hadn't noticed the postings - if somebody replies to a user page, it would make sense to show that in the original user's "most recent forum entries" space, even though strictly they have not made a forum entry...
Because, as each person replies to it, everybody _except the author of the original article_ is alerted to the replies...
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Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here Posted Nov 23, 1999
I agree. Nobody needs to have a "nobdy loves you thing on their masterpiece" A way around it - post something like "please talk back"
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Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here Posted Nov 23, 1999
Good news bad news was mentoned in the kiwi writing thing as an interesting entry. No money was won, perhaps
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- 1: Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here (Aug 24, 1999)
- 2: 3Syllables (Aug 24, 1999)
- 3: Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here (Aug 25, 1999)
- 4: shazzPRME (Aug 25, 1999)
- 5: Mark Moxon (Sep 7, 1999)
- 6: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 23, 1999)
- 7: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 23, 1999)
- 8: Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here (Nov 23, 1999)
- 9: Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here (Nov 23, 1999)
- 10: 3Syllables (Nov 27, 1999)
- 11: shazzPRME (Nov 27, 1999)
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