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  Lazy web posting
 
Maybe this already exists, but I'd like to be even more lazy when posting using the web interface. Currently, I always get the "Before you post" page, to which I respond "Yes", then I get the message composition page, where I check a box again (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lazy web posting
 
(...) yah, that all would be nice... actually, it _is_ nice :) I think that if you're logged in, you can run through the news setup again (or some sort of setup), and it'll remember all these things you mentioned. When I go to post on the web, I get (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lazy web posting
 
(...) (URL) probably ought to be linked from the front page. In fact I sort of wish there was a page of "handy links to various things that you are likely to want to do that are administrativeish". Heck, maybe there is, but I don't know where it is. (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lazy web posting
 
(...) You don't have to be logged in as a member. Just go through the posting setup process, and check the flag to save the info as a cookie. (It's been awhile, things may have changed (but I don't think they have)) Steve (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lazy web posting
 
You're all geniuses, I say. I didn't find the box to check to save the info as a cookie, but other than that, it worked fine. Thanks Cary (...) ... (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lazy web posting
 
(...) It can be anywhere you like, but I'd suggest somewhere like www.lugnet.com/admin/~5/ 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lazy web posting
 
(...) Fail to see what good that would do the random shlub who shows up at the front door of LUGNET and wants to do administrativeish things. He won't know me from Adam and thus any pages I create won't be of any help to him (or her) ++Lar (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lazy web posting
 
(...) Sure, initially, but it'll fulfil *your* (sort of) wish. And when the page is to your liking, you can always ask the administrator (or curator) of .admin to put a link to it on the admin main page. I was just saying if you (or anyone) perceive (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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