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Re: A Question on Logging in and posting
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:48:20 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Wilkins writes:
> Hi, Todd;
> I've logged into LUGNET from a machine that I usually don't use, and therefore
> are not logged in from my usual IP (it's static on my work machine). I have
> logged in using my member information, but everytime I reply to a message, or
> start a new post, the "New user/TOU" screens prompt me to (naturally) confirm
> that I realio-trulio want to try to post a message, and I should read the
> Terms Of Service. I don't have a problem with this; I expected it. However,
> (and this is my real point) I would have thought that by logging in, the
> system would recognize my login, and assume that I had already read the TOS
> and could be trusted to not flood the system with spurious messages.
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> (I do software QA for a living, and this is the kind of thing that I look for,
> so don't feel like I'm trying to persecute you, or anything.)
>
> Now, I'll admit that I haven't read the plan completely, nor have I gone
> through every message in admin.general to see if someone else has already gone
> through this and brought it to your attention. If this is already a known
> issue, nevermind. If not, (and this is improper operation) I live to bring
> such things to your attention.
As I understand it, there is currently no integration between the userid and
the various cookies (news setup, mail subscription setup) and therefore,
knowledge of who you are is not taken advantage of to any meaningful extent.
As LUGNET grows in features, this becomes a more and more serious
"unimplementation", in my opinion. It makes the user experience very choppy.
I'm sure Todd is working on it, at his own pace, and when everything is
absolutely perfect, he'll release some small thing to move us incrementally in
that direction/ It is, after all, articulated in the plan, and after 23 or so
of those releases, we'll be there, but for now, it's frustrating.
I think Todd already knows that those of us who understand good user design are
indeed frustrated by it, because I've seen it brought up before. but I'm not
sure that our bringing it up has sped anything up so far. Todd moves at his own
speed, which one has to come to terms with (1). What I've suggested in the past
was to try to find ways to reduce the administrative load so Todd gets more
time to code, but so far none of those ideas have worked. Many of them have
turned out to cost more time than they might have saved, unfortunately.
1 - and he has the luxury to do so since there is no deadline, this is not a
publicly held company and there is no release date looming. It must be grand to
be able to gold plate everything instead of having to rush stuff out the door
before it's fully done like most of us do because we have customers who expect
things to be done within a certain time frame.
++Lar
"Let's go somewhere where there's cheese!"
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| (...) That's correct -- the e-mail addresses entered on member pages aren't yet verified in a way that lets them be automatedly linked with posting. The single-group News-by-Mail subscription change that went up a few days ago, (URL) a break-out and (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Hi, Todd; I've logged into LUGNET from a machine that I usually don't use, and therefore are not logged in from my usual IP (it's static on my work machine). I have logged in using my member information, but everytime I reply to a message, or start (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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