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Re: Posting setup question
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:48:41 GMT
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Todd,
Thanks for clearing that all up. I know it's out there on LUGNet somewhere, I
just couldn't find it...
James
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, James Wilson <j_wilson.plateletlab@usa.net> writes:
>
> > 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 lugnet.off-topic.test via the web interface,
> > it wouldn't take my post. So, I filled the form out again, but did not
> > receive a confirmatory message.
>
> Right -- it only sends a confirmation message the first time a given
> name/address pair is seen.
>
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> > So, I'll fill it out, again, and try again.
> > Specific questions:
> > 1) What is required to post via newsreader? I'm doing it, but I don't
> > remember if I did anything special to get here.
>
> Your newsreader needs to be sending your name & email address in the 'From:'
> line correctly. In your case, it's working fine, obviously, because your
> message got here and was posted from your newsreader.
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> > 2) Once I get setup to post via the web interface, how does it work
> > using multiple computers?
>
> The easiest thing is simply to fill out the news-posting setup form once at
> each computer, and that will cause the cookie to be stored on each computer.
>
> http://www.lugnet.com/news/post/setup/
>
> Later (maybe in a month or two), an membership feature might be to make some
> of this sort of thing easier for members who also use news and multiple
> computers...
>
> --Todd
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| (...) 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)
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