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Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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Date: 
Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:36:46 GMT
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TWS Garrison <twBASSs@ISmorBESTfydd.net> wrote:
1) Some posts may only be read by members of a group---for example, those
who have e-mailed the curator[1] requesting permission to read private

Wouldn't it be cleaner to do this on a per-group basis, rather than having
a mishmash in one group? There could be lugnet.org.us.nelug and
lugnet.org.us.nelug.private, for example.


2) Curator must have a known and previously agreed ability and
responsibility to cancel posts that should have been private but were not
(i.e., replies to private posts that include confidential information that
should have been trimmed from a public reply).

Having the separate private group seems like a cleaner solution here --
just make the message-accepting code reject crossposts to a private group
or followup-to outside of the group.

If someone goes beyond that and purposely reposts out of the group, that
seems beyond reasonable technical messures to prevent.

If it must be on a per-post basis, a similar thing could be done: replies
to a private message would always automatically be private.


3) (Some) Newsgroups may only accept posts from those whom the curator has
specified may post.  (I believe that this functionality has already been

This would be a given, of course.






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Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) There are actually three functionalities that are desired here: 1) Some posts may only be read by members of a group---for example, those who have e-mailed the curator[1] requesting permission to read private posts. Specifying on the users (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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