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Re: Getting a password reset?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:11:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Jeff Thompson writes:
> > I wish that my filter and news-post-access settings would
> > follow me around from computer to computer based on the lugnet ID
> > and password.
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> It actually does now (as of about 3-4 weeks ago) -- to make it go, sign in
> with your member ID+password and then fill out the forms (news posting setup,
> skip-filter, news-by-mail settings) and they'll be stored into your member
> record on the server in virtual cookies rather than in real cookies. It's
> kinda somewhat of a hack but it gets the job done.
Cool beans! I love this "ask for a feature to find out it's
already been implemented" idea. :^D
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> > I love the brief mode! I wish that there was a way to select
> > how many lines of text the brief mode would display. Putting b3 in the
> > URL would display 3 lines of text per message, b4 would display 4, etc.
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> Since it's using a proportional-space font and since it also doesn't know the
> width in pixels of the column, it actually doesn't know ahead of time whether
> it'll be displaying, say, 3 or 4 lines (or 2 or 5, etc.). What it does is
> limits the body of the message to something like 250 characters. That limit
> of characters is something that could perhaps be tweakable somewhere...
That would be *most* cool. I really like the way the brief mode works,
with the suppression of quoted text and all that. It'd be most cool to
have it as an option to be, well, a little less brief!
--
Jeff <jthompson@esker.com> "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| (...) Heck, with an 'unlimited length' option, the brief mode would be a *great* way to view an entire thread -- you would get to see most of the actual writing, with almost none of the quoting. You'd almost never need the quoting, because you'd (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Getting a password reset?
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| (...) It actually does now (as of about 3-4 weeks ago) -- to make it go, sign in with your member ID+password and then fill out the forms (news posting setup, skip-filter, news-by-mail settings) and they'll be stored into your member record on the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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