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Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:51:26 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Dan Boger writes:
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
However, a *new* issue has arisen as a result of our experimenting with this
feature: the fact that the web interface, unlike most newsreaders, do not
permit you to override it.  As you saw in an earlier message from me, it is
possible to maintain the thread and override the suggestion using a newsreader,
but based on your experience this can not be done through the web interface.

So, the new question is, how should the web interface deal with this?

maybe I'm missing something, but show me again where the web interface is
broken?  I've never had a problem overriding it - but maybe I'm not getting
the problem here?

oh, nevermind, I see it.  I guess we need to add another button in case the
fut is poster, so that you'd have the option to reply-to poster, or via the
web interface, override the entry.  also the newsgroups field in the web
interface should weed out "poster" (and ignore it, I guess), since we don't
want the web interface to be an open relay for mail...

hmmm... does that mean we should disallow FUT set to "lugnet.general,
poster", since the "poster" will be ignored?

ideas?

Dan



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  Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
 
(...) I would suggest keeping the screen the same, but if the user clicks "Reply" it would take you to a new page that explains "The author of this message has set Followup-To: to 'poster', indicating that he or she wishes any replies to be sent via (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
 
(...) As an NNTP user, I'd say that poster should be allowed, since it seems to an NNTP-way of doing things. Steve (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
 
(...) maybe I'm missing something, but show me again where the web interface is broken? I've never had a problem overriding it - but maybe I'm not getting the problem here? Dan (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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