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Re: Request for deletion of second post
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:24:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jamie Obrien wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Mark Neumann wrote:
> > > I accidentially posted twice in build.mecha  Here:
> > > http://news.lugnet.com/build/mecha/?n=11290
> > 
> > It's gone...
> > 
> > > Can someone take care of that for me?  I remember reading that someone could but
> > > forgot the process of where to ask.
> > 
> > The process is: Send a note to someone on the Admin team with the URL of the
> > post that needs to die, we will take care of it.
> > 
> > Currently that's Todd, Frank, Tim or myself.
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> 
> Hi, this probably won't get through anyway :( but here goes.
> Why not create a 'Cancel me Account', that people can send requests to and
> whoever is on duty (read lurking around) can take care of it instead of a
> specific person to log back.

Good idea, and easy to do since it's just an alias. Has been talked about
before, time to bring it up again internally.

> Also, for people logging in through the web, put a
> link 'Cancel this post,' somewhere in the headers region of the message. This
> would take them to a confirm page, where they would just do some confirmation
> stuff. This would only work with your own posts while logged in.

This is a bit harder to implement but in my view a worthy suggestion.

> Us NNTP users
> would just send the  URL to the 'cancelmeaccount at the sever dottie commie' :)
> 
> And if you really want to, put a 'report this post' link on the pages, if only
> for admins or admin types so they can report highlight posts for further action.

As is this.



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