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I have a few suggestions for improving the posting of articles using the web interface. 1) There should be a web interface for canceling your own posts. 2) There should be a "Preview" button so you can see what your post will look like before you (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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You forgot 5) Wash my car. ;^) ~Mark (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think Deja.com is not a particularly well done implementation of web access to news. Lugnet's is better. Or would be, if only ... (...) #1 were true here. It is on Deja(1). ... and ... (...) #2 were true here. It is on Deja(1) ... and ... (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, please. I know how to cancel my posts with a newsreader. But I have access problems that make using a newsreader on lugnet difficult. And, anyway, this ability should be available to everyone. (...) Yes! Sometimes I want to cancel one of (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If you're willing to tinker with the URL, you can change the sign of the delta stepper from negative to positive (i.e., remove the "-" sign), for example: (URL) (reverse-chronological) (URL) (chronological) BTW, have you tried Sproat's (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh yes, indeed. :^) (...) Wonderful!! Perfect. Thank you! Beautiful implementation. (...) No, I haven't. I'll look at it - thank you for the recommendation. To be honest, lugnet's web interface, particularly the 'view nested messages' feature, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I kept following your footnotes but I blew my stack. After a reboot and a quick system check, I tried again and had suffered another stack overflow. Once I figure out what is going wrong, I'll be better able to reply to your message. My head (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I believe it's closed source, and has truck factor 1. ++Lar (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't understand the truck reference, but LUGNET wouldn't need to be open- source to benefit from multiple developers working on encapsulatable tasks. Semi-closed-source? Although, I imagine that creating encapsulatable tasks and managing (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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The truck factor is basically, AFAIK, how many trucks it would take to wipe out the company/project/whatever. One truck hitting a car Todd is in would pretty much destroy Lugnet, and that's BAD. That's why most companies won't let all of their (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) There's now an intermediate page: in place of the "Post Message" button there is now a "Preview Message" button. Clicking that brings you to a mock-up page using the same display code as the "real" article would use once it appears after being (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Another caveat: if there are any errors (like, for example, if a message is addressed to a group which doesn't exist), it won't tell you that on the preview page, because it doesn't really know about any errors until after it actually submits (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Cool. Saw it in action, nice. Now give us both a post AND preview button. :-) This lets us post the quickies quickly, as well as circumventing the large message problem you allude to below. (Power users) <intersect> NN3 users) (is the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, please do that! meanwhile, remind people of that in the text at the top of the preview "this is letting you see how your message will LOOK, but isn't guaranteeing that it will post successfully..." ++Lar (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK -- changepoint here tonight: Beneath the editing window, there are now two buttons -- "Preview" and "Post." (And "Post" has the additional option of the e-mail checkbox.) Also, like the FTX page-editing cycle, the preview page also includes (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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This may be an old topic... but... I am set up to post. I use Outlook Express to do this. However, I would like to use the web interface to post when I am not at home. I tried to post from news.lugnet.com and it gave me the following error: (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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It wants you to register your new address, just like it did the old one when you signed up via the web interface. ;-) Do that, fill in any appropriate details, and you should be fine. Same thing happened to me when I switched to LedaNet from Fast (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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