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Subject:	Re: Suggestions for posting articles using web interface
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:33:10 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: > One caveat here is that [...] 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 the article to the newsserver. It *could* in theory try to pre-anticipate possible errors by doing the same sorts of checks, but I'm not sure how much trouble that's worth (although I think some of the error checks might be encapsulated enough in the newsserver to be callable externally... hmm). --Todd

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		Re: Suggestions for posting articles using web interface
(...) 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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		Re: Suggestions for posting articles using web interface
(...) 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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