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    Posting setup question —James Wilson
   Please forgive the possible redundancy of this message. I have had little success posting messages via web interface. I have filled out the posting form, and received a confirmatory message. But when I tried a few days ago to post to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Posting setup question —Todd Lehman
   (...) Right -- it only sends a confirmation message the first time a given name/address pair is seen. (...) Your newsreader needs to be sending your name & email address in the 'From:' line correctly. In your case, it's working fine, obviously, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Posting setup question —David Eaton
     (...) A note on cookies, etc... my cookie got deleted (I'm always playing around with them being that I'm a newly starting out web-programmer), but I haven't tried re-filling out the form to get it back... how easy would it be to have the posting (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Posting setup question —Todd Lehman
     (...) It will only re-drop the cookie onto your computer if you have the following checkbox checked when you submit the form: _ |_| Keep my information in web browser cookie on my local machine so that I don't have to retype it whenever I post from (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Posting setup question —Richard Franks
     (...) Arrgh! There's a cookie? Either my cookie got munched, or I forgot to click the checkbox because I've had to type in my stupidly long spamblock address for every message since I lost nntp access 3-4 months ago :) Okie, I'm going to do the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Posting setup question —James Wilson
   Todd, Thanks for clearing that all up. I know it's out there on LUGNet somewhere, I just couldn't find it... James (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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