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(...) I agree, we encourage notification. It also helps taking the 'temperature' of the community - especially from people who choose not to participate in a hot thread but are irritated by it. This will help us know when to take action and when not (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) (Tim Courtney was just added to this list, IIRC) (...) Notification is *always* helpful. It may bring attention to something we overlooked. (I overlook things sometimes...) It will also validate that we're taking appropriate action. Depending (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Thank you, Todd. I can think of a number of occasions in the past few months where this would have made lugnet a much more pleasant place to be. (...) Should we notify you guys if we think a thread needs guidance, or just assume that you guys (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) a FEW questions/comments. 1) This isn't a perfect fix, mail and nntp posters are not going to see the changes. 2) posts aren't moved, only the FUT is forced. Questions: Consider this thread: (URL) just forceFUTed the whole thread to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) By the way - does it actually move the posts, or just sets the FUT on them? From what I can see, posts that were "corrected" are still in their original newsgroups? Also, I guess a blank O-FUT header signifies that there was no original FUT, (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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