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Re: Restricting posts: (was: Re: Informal CFD: robotics competition newsgroup(s))
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 14 Jan 1999 03:33:16 GMT
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Beaker <beaker@havoc.gtf.org> writes:
> Also sprach Matthew Miller:
> > PS: nuther random suggestion for todd -- the news server at bu is set up so
> > that it will only accept posts with more new content than quoted stuff.
> > seems like a good idea.
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> Todd, I would discourage this practice for one specific reason:
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> Sometimes the material you want to post is in fact quoted, but not form
> a previous article. Sometimes it is a repost with comments, sometimes
> it is an example ... I ran into this the other day on my regular server,
> when I was trying to post an example of 'good posts' vs 'bad posts' ...
> all of the material was original, but more of it was quoted than not,
> and the server bitched.
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> I realize I am arguing for leaving good posting behavior up to
> individuals on the day after someone blatantly ignored a polite request,
> but still, I think those types of situations will be rare.
Agreed 100%. It's too bad, BTW, that newsserver error messages back to the
user can only be pass/fail. It would be nice to say, "Hey, are you aware
that your post is 90% quoted and 10% new? You might consider snipping a bit
more quoted stuff," and then let the poster click "Post anyway; I know what
I'm doing" or "Let me re-edit," and then have a conflibberjibbet somewhere
to configure the threshold between 0% (never warn) and 100% (always warn).
Could be done on the web-interface side of things, but I'd call it feeping
creaturitis.
--Todd
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