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Every thing is correct just like you have here. All I do is click on a list of subscribed groups. -- Nicole widow of Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:200108121448.f7...ron.com... (...) exist.', (...) prefix? (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It seems the server claims you were posting to bad groups. I assume you had '.'s in your groups when you posted? and had a 'lugnet.' prefix? 'lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.org.us.luncy'... also, notice that the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Now when trying to post we get this: Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'New website', Account: 'lugnet.com', Server: 'lugnet.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '441 Your message is addressed to a group which does not exist.', (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't like to write "me too" posts, but I think it's worth saying again in this case. I find myself in exactly the same situation as LFB - my rate of posting (and reading, for that matter) has increased since I switched to the web interface (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You can have a look at some very basic info here: (URL) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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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