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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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