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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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