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Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:04:49 GMT
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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> writes:
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...

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 e-mail rather than posted to
LUGNET," followed by a "MAILTO:" link and a button for "Override this
request and send reply to the newsgroup," which takes you to the
regular reply page.

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

I tested on two "regular" NNTP servers and this (including a newsgroup
as well as "poster") is allowed there too.  But I think disallowing it
would be an improvement, and so I would support that, though I don't
feel too strongly either way.

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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