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(...) 6. Change your server config to transparently ignore messages crossposted to valid lugnet groups and RTL. My guess is that people doing this (maybe I'm giving people too much credit?) have some setup (like a caching server) where they can in (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yeah, I understand that. If you want to continue to be non-standard :) you could make a special exception for rec.toys.lego. (...) Or, yeah. I like this best. (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ah! Yes, that's definitely the Right Thing. (I know it when I see it.) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ah yes, that sounds like a very good idea. The reason it's rejecting articles posted to non-groups now is because people can misspell something -- and it's better to give them an immediate error message than to silently file the article in (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, maybe it should only be persnickety about group names if they match /^lugnet\./ The newsgroup-validation logic was added back when all the groups started with different prefixes (before the reanming to the lugnet.* hierarchy). --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Don't forget to comment your code that you are making the assumption that all lugnet news groups are prefixed with lugnet.* You never know when you'll decide you need to change back for one reason or another. Sarah (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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