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Re: Roll Call Time?
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Date: 
Tue, 23 May 2000 09:31:19 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.ca, Frank Filz writes:

I really wish Todd would change his mind about applying editorial control so
that errors like this could be nipped in the bud easier. The more people who
use lugnet, the more a problem this will become.

For the web-interface, the idea <http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=3290>
has been reguritated several times. It is too easy to cross-post with the web
interface as the extra groups don't stand out and are commonly hidden by the
width of the 'Newsgroups:' box.

If around 50% of users use the web-interface then that could have a big impact
alone.


Perhaps Todd could at least consider adding appropriate "follow ups to"
headers to misplaced posts (which would not be altering anything the poster
wrote, but would make it almost certain that responses would not continue to
flood the wrong group).

That sounds like it's going into trusted moderators territory?

I'd prefer changes to the web-interface to make it entirely obvious and easy to
change when you are cross-posting, and yet more changes to make it so great as
to tempt the remaining nntp and news-by-mail users to it :)

Richard



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(...) One thing which might work well for web posting is to bring up an "are you sure" panel when a post will be crossposted to 2 or more groups (the count could exclude certain groups). (25 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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