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Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Date:
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Tue, 1 Feb 2005 06:38:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Mark Jordan wrote:
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By putting all of these things together, I think it would be possible to
allow newsgroup/email user to respond to posts with the option of including
the string +HIGHLIGHT+ or +SPOTLIGHT+ (or some other agreed string) which has
the side effect of spotlighting the article.
Optionally, a newsgroup user might reply with only the string +HIGHLIGHT+
or +SPOTLIGHT+ in which case their post doesn’t result in an actual post,
just a highlight/spotlight.
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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
highlight/spotlights anyway), members who are using SMTP/NNTP would have to
submit their user number and password along with the post, which gets dangerous.
If they screwed up something and replied incorrectly, their member password
could get displayed for the world to see. Not that it’s the most secure
transmission venue to begin with.
The best way would probably be to get posting setups associated with member
id’s. So a member could log in to the website, try to associate their posting
setup, which sends their email address a verification. They verify that that
mail address is theirs, and then that email address can send highlight
spotlights the same way as posts (requiring authentication). But honestly I
think it still runs a good risk of having someone accidentally sending things
through that say “+HIGHLOGHT+” or whatnot that Lugnet interprets as posts,
because the user submitted them incorrectly, resulting in some messiness.
Possible certainly, but kinda messy.
DaveE
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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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| (...) 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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