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    Change in News Display Behavior Gereon Stein
   All, due to privacy concerns raised by a few individuals, the news display has been modified slightly. Going forward, only registered and signed-in members will be able to see the "Author" field of news posts. For visitors and search engines, this (...) (10 years ago, 15-Dec-14, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 
   
        Re: Change in News Display Behavior —Todd Lehman
     (...) Hi Jerry, Thanks for the update. Point of clarification: This is only for the web view, yes? And specifically, only the field called "Author"? I see that the "From" and "X-Real-Life-Name" headers of the raw NNTP message, e.g. (URL) still (...) (10 years ago, 15-Dec-14, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Change in News Display Behavior Gereon Stein
     (...) Hi Todd, yes correct, I only took out the Author field from the message display and the "name" field from the list view - however you seem to have spotted at least one more place that I have not covered, so I'll probably spend some more time (...) (10 years ago, 15-Dec-14, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Change in News Display Behavior Gereon Stein
     Update: The list Todd spotted has now also been cleared of the poster name display if visitor is not signed in. I have now disabled the link to the raw message for non-signed-in users as well. Hope that helps. Thanks, Jerry (10 years ago, 15-Dec-14, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Change in News Display Behavior —John H. Guillory
     (...) So how do we create an account? (9 years ago, 16-Mar-15, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Change in News Display Behavior —Todd Lehman
   Hi Jerry, Reporting something here that I think might be a recent bug: Even when I'm signed in, I'm not seeing the Author field in the headers on any new posts. On old posts, however, the Author field does show up. In looking at the raw message (...) (9 years ago, 7-Oct-15, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 

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