 | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Todd Lehman
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| | | (...) Hey Lar, You -do- know what's involved in moderating, right? You get mailed an NNTP article via SMTP, which you then import into an editor, munge the headers, add an 'Approved-By' header, and then repost via NNTP. There are tools to help with (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Yes. Long term you will probably provide an interface for members to do this easily. Till then, no problem. I'll have my lar@voyager.net account receive these. Munging the headers should not be a problem from there. It would be hard to do (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) There's another icky sticky problem with moderated groups. When you post to one, your message disappears into the wild blue yonder. You don't find out whether your post made it there or not until you either see it minutes/ hours/days later or (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Ed Jones
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| | | | (...) I agree. Considering that this is supposed to be fun, I think too many people are making this way to cerebral!!! Its beginning to look a whole lot like the dreaded LEGO/LEGOS threads. (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | Kill QOTD, I don't care, it's the easiest solution. It's not a high value add group anyway. But I do think we need to explore the mechanics and technology of moderation as a community experiment. Moderation (or review of information) will appear (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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