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Re: Roll Call Time?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 23 May 2000 11:55:50 GMT
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Richard Franks wrote:
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 :)

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).

--
Frank Filz

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(...) Especially if there's no Followup-To header and/or the message is a follow-up. Steve (25 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) For the web-interface, the idea (URL) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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