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Re: Interface changes coming today
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:35:09 GMT
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cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) writes:
> I just went to the setup page and entered my info. What is going to
> happen if I (or someone else) makes a type or something dumb like
> that?
If you make a typo? Your posts will probably not be recognized as being
yours by the server (depending on the severity and nature of the typo) and
will be politely refused because the server can't recognize you. So you may
want to use cut & paste if it's a tricky thing to type.
> I'm mainly interested for curiosity reasons - I'd like to know
> how slrn will report to me that a post of mine has been refused, and
> if it will be something I can fire up a browser and correct right
> away.
Well, we'll find out tomorrow, I guess. :) Netscape and Free Agent both
give an interactive error message and recover cycle -- so if a message is
rejected (bad newsgroups list or whatever), you can fix it right there and
resubmit it.
I would imagine slrn would just pop you back into Pico or vi and let you
correct the typo. Or you would go to the /news/post/setup/ page and correct
the typo -- if that's where it is -- and you'd have to wait until it was in
the system DB before resubmitting your post.
> Speaking of that, what is to keep someone else from logging in and
> entering information for other people at random, or perhaps worse,
> with a specific target in mind? I know that can be prevented in the
> future with a user login and password, but right now it sure sounds
> like I could login and changed Larry's e-mail address and keep him
> from being able to post. Can I?
No, it doesn't work that way at all -- there is no log-in process and you
can't alter other people's data and you can't prevent someone else from
being able to post. (You can't really even prevent yourself from being able
to post.)
What you're typing into the /news/post/setup/ boxes is an application
for permission to use the system under that name/email combination --
or, rather, asking the server to consider accepting posts from that
name/email combination. That's all it is. The other part of it, of course,
is the part which optionally stores a cookie on your machine -- and that's
local to your machine and you can't see or change anyone else's cookies.
If you change the cookie, you've changed what's stored in your browser, but
the server still has your old name/email combo to pass messages.
--Todd
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| (...) Why pick on ME?? I'm not the one who started invoking your name in examples, after all... :-) (...) OK, if I post using the web interface from multiple machines, do I need to enter my info exactly as before to get the cookie for the second (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I just went to the setup page and entered my info. What is going to happen if I (or someone else) makes a type or something dumb like that? I'm mainly interested for curiosity reasons - I'd like to know how slrn will report to me that a post (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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