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Re: Suggestions for posting articles using web interface
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:15:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > One caveat here is that [...]
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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 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).
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
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