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Re: Cancelling Posts?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:40:57 GMT
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Quoting a post posted six months ago ....
Has a facility for cancelling posts via the web interface
been implemented? I wrote in this post that I go fire up
a newsreader when I want to cancel a post, but my NNTP
access has become so dicey that I no longer bother to try.
Thank you, Todd, for deleting a duplicate post of mine I
accidentally double-posted. I would have deleted it myself but
after wrestling with nntp timeouts for half an hour I gave
up. I suppose I should switch to a better news reader, but
I wish that post-deletion could be done from the web-interface,
as long as the proper authentication was checked (ie you had
to be "logged in" with your lugnet membership).
In lugnet.admin.general, Jeff Thompson writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > I don't believe you can cancel posts with your newsreader that you
> > posted with the web interface. If you can, that would solve the problem
> > for a class of users, but not all.
> >
> > However, I still think this is a facility that Todd should provide. It
> > is NOT censorship or editorial control for the author to cancel his own
> > post.
> >
> > My opinion is that the sticking point is proving (within a program's
> > logic) beyond a reasonable shadow of doubt that you are who you say you
> > are, else non authors can cancel each other's posts.
> >
> > Todd could do it. I remain convinced. He is quite clever. It's just not
> > as high on his list of priorities as it is on mine.
>
> I wish there were a way to do this, as well, via the web
> interface.
>
> When I am motivated to cancel a post, I will go ahead and
> use outlook express or netscape to find the post via NNTP
> and issue a cancel, but NNTP access is painfully slow from
> my site, with many timeouts, and the last time I tried to
> cancel something, it wound up never getting cancelled.
>
> In terms of enhancements to the LUGNET web interface, I'd
> much prefer Todd spend his time on turning set numbers into
> hyperlinks (ie the nomenclature set:6077 into a link to that
> image in the pause/lugnet db). But, then, after that's done,
> a way to cancel posts would be great. =) It doesn't even have to
> be easy (ie there's no need to put a cancel button near next to
> every post. It could just be a "cancel post" URL where you
> have to provide by hand the number of the post.
--
Jeff <jthompson@esker.com> "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| (...) I wish there were a way to do this, as well, via the web interface. When I am motivated to cancel a post, I will go ahead and use outlook express or netscape to find the post via NNTP and issue a cancel, but NNTP access is painfully slow from (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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