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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 23:40:13 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.
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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.
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
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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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