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Re: A Change
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lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.curators
Date: 
Thu, 8 May 2003 21:13:11 GMT
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"Hendo (John P. Henderson)" <hendo@valyance.com> wrote in message
news:HEL3JA.14I0@lugnet.com...
Time for me to play devil's advocate...

In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Richard Noeckel writes:
Thus, as citizen we must demand greater freedoms.

At the risk of sounding elitist, I point out that the "citizens" of Lugnet
are arguably the paying members.  As a member who posts exclusively via • the
web interface, I have no knowledge of the difficult verifications I keep
hearing about.  Few of us would hesitate to drop $10 on a night at the
movies (or whatever), so I think the $10 to be a member here is very
reasonable.  Is this problem indeed something members encounter?

I am a member and still have to verify my post.
It is not dificult to do that, so i dont think it is a big problem.
But It would be nice if we could have a system where non-paying members or
non-members have to ferify their post, and those who have paid can skip this
verifying.
Only problem I see with the verifying post is that the answer to a post can
be delayed some hours, since I not always remember to verify my post the
minute after I have posted them....

If the verification problem is something that even members get when not
using the interface that I do, then I argue that maybe the web interface • is
your solution if you really don't like the system, and who among us • doesn't
have a web browser available half the time anyway?

I am not using the web-interface. Why? Well I have got used to do this
trough the news reader in Microsoft Outlook Express (I know that this is not
a good news reader/editor but I do not need more fancy stuff).


Regards
Øyvind Steinnes
http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/?m=1983



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  Re: A Change
 
(...) Such a system is in place. It's commonly referred to as the web interface. (...) Yet another reason to use the web interface. (...) What turned me off from newsreaders was the inability to track threads that cross from one newsgroup to (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.curators)

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  Re: A Change
 
Time for me to play devil's advocate... (...) At the risk of sounding elitist, I point out that the "citizens" of Lugnet are arguably the paying members. As a member who posts exclusively via the web interface, I have no knowledge of the difficult (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.curators)

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