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Re: CFD: rec.toys.lego feed here
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:21:02 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org^NoSpam^
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > 6. Change your server config to transparently ignore messages crossposted to
> > valid lugnet groups and RTL.
> 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 'junk'. Especially hard-to-type names like lugnet.off-topic.fun
> which might come out as lugnet.off-topic-fun when typed by hand.
Yeah, I understand that. If you want to continue to be non-standard :) you
could make a special exception for rec.toys.lego.
> Say, what if it had an invisible incoming & outgoing feed from/to RTL?
> Messages crossposted to lugnet.* groups that -originated- in RTL would show up
> here, and messages crossposted to RTL that originated here would be sent on to
> RTL? (In both cases, Message-ID's providing protection against duplicates.)
Or, yeah. I like this best.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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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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| (...) 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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