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Re: Problems contacting me ?
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Date: 
Wed, 7 Feb 2001 04:44:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.test, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.test, Larry Pieniazek writes:
Also, what is FUT?

FollowUpTo

Hmm, I could put a sort of "what is this?" or "help" link beneath or next to
the Followup-To box on the posting page...might help educate people on what
the heck that funny-named field does, and have it go to /help/news/followup-to
with a description and a tiny bit of NNTP & Usenet history.  Whaddya think?

Ya.

More generally I think the idea of coming up with an icon that you can put
in this place and in others that means to people "click here for help", and
that links to help, is a good one. Needs to be tiny of course as real estate
is tight.



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  help followup-to
 
(...) Aya...something maybe 16x16 with a question mark or something. Downside of an image-based link is that if it's borderless, it's hard to tell if you've been there before, but that's not probably much of an issue with help pages; and if it's got (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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