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Re: Message indexing awry?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:41:06 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Geoffrey Hyde wrote:

3.  Problem:  No way to edit posts after they have been posted to the
newsgroup(s).

I quie like the fact that you can't edit your posts. It makes you get it right
first time(1) and prevents people 'changing history' However I can see why it
would be useful, especially for correcting links.

Tim

(1) before anything says anything, I don't necessarily practice what I preach



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  Re: Message indexing awry?
 
(...) One idea I've seen used is to allow editing until someone replies, then it's locked. Allister (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J9FKBL.Bx9@lugnet.com... (...) How about considering the current LUGNET system to be made into (I don't know the exact word I'm after) an 'archive-read-only' system, and migrating (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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