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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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Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:02:14 GMT
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 03:33:16 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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> 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).
Well, I'm not sure about usenet clients, but on the fidonet, wehre I
first started, the editors such as GoldEd and MBM etc. have this
option builtin. In fact, I would go so far as to say that for newbies,
thisd option should be mandatory. :)
Jasper
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