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    Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
   (...) ... (...) Reading via mail/news - voting was never implemented for those readers. (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
     (...) How many people read LUGNET like that? Would it be worth it to implement voting for those readers? Or are the non technical factors more significant? (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
    
         Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
      (...) I don't know the stats for people reading via NNTP, but according to the lugnet.admin.statistics posts, there's about 3000 SMTP users - more than the number of members (people who can vote right now). (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
    
         Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —David Eaton
     (...) Voting via email might be possible, although annoying and pretty unsecure. A reply by default just goes to the list. You'd have to somehow send your member ID (and password!) and a flag that says "I'm spotlighting this" via SMTP that would get (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
    
         Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —David Eaton
      (...) Stats for 2004: Total posts via logged in web users: 34,682 Total posts by NNTP/SMTP/non-logged in users: 62,036 Unique web members: 597 Unique non-logged-in posting members: 1,685 So, about 1/4 of the posters are posting 1/2 of the content (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
     
          Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
       (...) Hmmmn. I don't know what to make of those numbers - except that its a very high number people who just don't see the "highlighting" drilldown. SUGGESTION Clearly Todd already has * a way of highlighting posts * parsing emails to take actions * (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
      
           Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —David Eaton
       (...) Well, the issue would really be authenticating the user as a member, and making sure the message didn't get posted if they composed it incorrectly. Since only members are allowed to vote (and when viewing from SMTP/NNTP you can't see (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
      
           Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
       (...) Agreed. No way would you want someone to send a password in plain text. (...) That's what I was thinking - same as current posting authentication. (...) Hmmn. Good point; this could be (mostly) addressed during the authentication stage: For (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
      
           Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
       (...) Except that this step isn't happening right now. The server doesn't actually know that this post is from member 179 - it just knows that this email addressed has been allowed to post with these headers. Yes, updating the posting setup form to (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
     
          Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
      (...) Just to clarify - this is the total number of posts in 2004 - by everyone, logged in, web, email, news, you name it. (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
    
         Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
     (...) I do think it would be a good idea. With the current imlpementation though, I don't think it's easy to actually corralate posts with the memebers who post them. (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Frank Filz
   (...) Yup, that's my number one reason for not voting. Until the web interface tracks what I have read and allows me to manage it, I will fundamentally continue to read by NNTP. Frank (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 

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