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(...) I'll speak as one of the opposite: The verification thing has actually made my rate of posting go *up*. I now log in, read, and post back at will. Before I was still trying to cling to NNTP, which I don't find as intuitive anymore. I may be in (...) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) LUGNET is not a democracy but I would vote AGAINST this in every single group I use or view (or whatever the metric was) This has been discussed at great length and I at least am convinced that the small inconvenience is worth not having (...) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I know I've slowed down greatly. It's a pain to bang off a quick message now. I've seen several postings of "By all This is the last post I'll be posting but I'll still be reading" type of post. The traffic to the robotics areas seems like (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) is who he says he is. However, there's a development cost to setting this up (trust me, I tried working on a script to do just that!), and PGP will not be a good solution for all (most?) users - users who like posting from multiple machines, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) PGP keys are unrelated to nntp - and they could be used to verify that a user is who he says he is. However, there's a development cost to setting this up (trust me, I tried working on a script to do just that!), and PGP will not be a good (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) true that that's only for the web interface. However, I don't know the distribution of users between web/nntp/smtp. Do you have any data? (...) Authenticated posting only makes sure you're allowde to access the server - it does not (without (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Really? I had kind of assumed that the web interface was the primary interface used... Although my guess is that that's changed since LUGNET's inception when it was most likely primarily NNTP... I dunno... (...) I think the point was mentioned (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's only if you are using the WEB interface. I think most of us use the NNTP or Email interface. My NEWS reader supports Authenticated posting, can we use that to prove who we are and not have to verify each post? We are loosing a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Firstly, let me move this to where it belongs... lugnet.admin.general Secondly, if you are a member of LUGNET, you can sign in and you do not have to wait to verify posts. Jude FUT .admin.general (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's what the lugnet.off-topic.test and lugnet.off-topic.test.foo are for :) post a message to one, with a followup set for the other :) HTH, Dan (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thank you Selcuk. Think there would be a problem with me testing it first? -- Nicole widow of Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Selçuk Göre" <ssgore@superonline.com> wrote in message news:3B7384AA.22C97C...ine.com... (...) group', (...) 0x800CCCA9 (...) (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Nicole, In Outlook Express message window (where you type your new message or reply to a message) click on the menu "View", then click on "All headers". Then you will see a new address line entry, which labeled as "Followup-To". I hope this would (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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It just gives me a list of groups to post to. -- Nicole widow of Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "LUGNET Admin" <suz@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:GHtrGt.GA0@lugnet.com... (...) addressed to (...) few (...) would say (...) area. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If you would like to post an announcement, your message needs to be addressed to lugnet.announce with instructions to reply to, or 'follow up,' at another newsgroup, such as lugnet.build. This is so the announce area contains only (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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when posting we get this: Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'New website', Account: 'lugnet.com', Server: 'lugnet.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '441 Posts to lugnet.announce must follow-up to another group', Port: 119, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's this latter example (like Frank's) that I had in mind. Someone at LUGNET would only need make the initial contact, and the rest is up to the person's "supervisor". Since I would assume cases like this to be exceptionally rare, I would (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I never was fond of JAL i the first place. People try to be nice to him but he just twists there words against them and tries to make them look like the jerk and glorify himself. His constant ramblings about all of his great MOCs are very (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, I recently acquired one of the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PCs, and am experiencing difficulty in caching successfully the main Lugnet and News sites. Your site appears in my Mobile Favorites, unfortunately it is grayed out and clicking the link only (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) As I mentioned to Shiri, I hadn't thought at all of a case like this where medication could help "control" the behaviour. I was thinking of cases where there is no such possible aid. But in spite of that, I think your example fits exactly what (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Understood. I don't feel comfortable with it either. (...) Yeah, I know what you mean..., I can't seem to wordify it either. There is a difference. I guess I could have better described 2 ("the kid") as someone who (may or) may not be doing (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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