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Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:45:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Larry Pieniazek writes:
It's HARD to toggle posting settings here. You minimise that as being
something that technically savvy people ought to be able to hack through.
But why force this on people? The answer is that it's only appropriate to
make things harder to use when there is a clear benefit from doing so that
outweighs the cost. If such a benefit exists, the inconvenience (and
rudeness shown TLC) is worth it.

You're absolutely right, Larry...you're absolutely right.  And thanks for
acknowledging the last portion of that above.  But let's try really hard not
to assume that the current state of web posting will necessarily still be
the case in the future. In a perfect world, I'd've liked to make both
changes at once, but it's going to be a two-stepper.

--Todd



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  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
(...) But you did the steps in the wrong order, and that's my major beef. -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 18-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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(...) My goodness, how many times does this need to be repeated? It's easy to get an email. Easy, but irrelevant to the argument. I have 5. So what? It's HARD to toggle posting settings here. You minimise that as being something that technically (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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