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Informal call for dicussion... lugnet.test ===...=== Posts of the type "this is just a test" seem to be on the increase. It's been suggested before -- should a lugnet.test newsgroup be created? * If it did exist, would newbies understand that they (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: CFD: lugnet.test
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(...) I doubt newbies would understand it, no. (...) No, they should be ignored, I think. (...) Trusting people to have common sense is usually a mistake. :) (...) Works for me. (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: CFD: lugnet.test
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(...) I think so. I think more test posts would go there than not. You could make a message saying to use it for test posts appear (nonobtrusively, of course) the first time anyone tries to post from the web interface.... (Assuming of course that (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: CFD: lugnet.test
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(...) YES! Of course, I've been calling for it for a while (...) If they are from UseNET, they should. There will be as much testing elsewhere as you get on RTL, etc. But it will give a good place to put test messages for those who DO know and get (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: CFD: lugnet.test
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Op een zekere dag, te weten Sat, 10 Oct 1998 04:06:32 GMT, klom lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) Talking about modesty. Hey Todd, you can do what you want with your own Newsserver! We all have to be eternally (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes. I am one of the big violators here. I use admin since there doesn't seem to be a test group any more. (...) news newbies might not, but news savvy LUGNET newbies would. (...) Yes. (...) Who cares. As long as they didn't care if they (...) (26 years ago, 11-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: CFD: lugnet.test
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(...) 'poster' is a special value for the 'Followup-To' header field. If an article contains Followup-To: poster then when someone posts a follow-up message, the follow-up message is e-mailed to the original poster (as given by the 'From' header (...) (26 years ago, 11-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: CFD: lugnet.test
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(...) lugnet.test is more standard This is for testing out newsreaders. But... Are there any other kind of tests that people do? Testing the headers, perhaps? Sarah (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I have another idea: Different groups... lugnet.newsreaders lugnet.newsreaders.test ...same questions. --Todd (posting from MicroPlanet Gravity today) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Testing sigs too, I suppose. Isn't that all part of testing the newsreader and/or newsreader configuration? --Todd (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Hmm. Anyone know of a good newsreader FAQ? At this stage it looks very much as though I'm going to be better off with a local news server for what I want. The list so far: - WinVN - "enter your news server (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I like Agent (I'm using FreeAgent because of my dutch background) You can set up more than one use or server by just creating subdirectories under the one you installed agent in and start agent from there. Every time you do that, you get a (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm very happy with Outlook Express for the most part, but I don't get illegal operations on it (I just start it when I reboot my computer and leave it running... so its been up for a few weeks now since my last reboot). I've tried everything else (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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