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   Message 69,287 of 70,346   
   Stan Brown to Lewis   
   Re: FAQ of the Rings updated   
   17 Sep 13 23:12:34   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:26:31 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:   
   >   
   > In message    
   >   Stan Brown  wrote:   
   > > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:08:39 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> In message    
   > >>   Stan Brown  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> > The FAQ of the Rings no longer links to articles archived in Google   
   > >> > Groups.   
   >   
   > >> Do you not want to have those articles linked from the FAQ inserted of   
   > >> only linking to an archive of all of them? Or is it a matter of time?   
   >   
   > > I figured it would be easier for visitors to do one download than   
   > > twenty-six.  And the archive isn't large, only about 60 KB if I   
   > > recall correctly.   
   >   
   > It's not the size, its finding what the links is referencing. I wasn't   
   > suggesting 26 downloads, I was suggesting the link load the article in   
   > question, either in a new page or in a popup.   
      
   Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm in a bit of a quandary.  Both new   
   windows and popups are deprecated and won't pass validation.  Also,   
   I'd have 25 more files in that folder.  What do others think?   
      
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