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Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:37:04 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Dan Boger writes:

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

As an NNTP user, I'd say that poster should be allowed, since it seems to an
NNTP-way of doing things.

I wasn't suggesting we disallow "poster" FUTs, just combinations "newsgroup,
poster" FUTs - are there any NNTP clients that support that kind of thing?
actually let you reply to the group and the email?

Dan



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  Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
 
(...) The problem with allowing FUT:poster (as pointed out before) is that web posters get no chance to override it when they reply. You could get around this by allowing "poster" in the "newsgroups" field too (probably only without any other NGs), (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
 
(...) Oh, ok. Sorry I didn't read carefully enough. (...) Forté Agent does -- when I went to reply to Ross' early message, I got a popup window, giving me the options of replying to the post by email, posting a reply to the newsgroup, or both. (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  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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