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Subject: 
Re: Posting Dates
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:40:33 GMT
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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Gerber wrote:
> > Besides, it is a disservice to the users to have their messages lag
> > a month behind the intended date...think of it as a customer
> > service issue.
> 
> naw - it's not the server's fault that whoever it is sat on the
> authuntication for a month... The only way we could fix that on the
> server side is to expire articles... say, if you don't auth it within a
> week, it's thrown away. Is that a better solution? I'm not sure. it sure
> will save space on the server though.

It would help if the server could "nag" people if their auth response
was never received.  An e-mail reminder could help in case the
original auth request was deleted or never delivered.  I've always
wondered ever since the auth system was put in place how I could know
if I never replied to an auth request...

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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  Re: Posting Dates
 
(...) so you think if it inserted itself with all the read messages, it'd be less confusing? I know I'd never see it, now will anyone who reads through the web interface... (...) naw - it's not the server's fault that whoever it is sat on the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)

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