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Re: Relocating errant messages
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:01:25 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Frank Filz writes:
Cary Clark wrote:

I'm not sure if this is against the spirit of LUGNET or not. My suggestion
is to allow LUGNET administrators and group curators to relocate whole
message threads to appropriate groups, in the case that the poster
mistakenly posted to the wrong group. • ...
One problem is that not only do you have to get the permission of the
original poster, but all subsequent posts...

Since the LUGNET Admin can currently cancel posts without the posters'
permission, I don't see why this would be the case. I assume that my
suggestion could be implemented with a script executed with administrator
privileges. Getting permission wouldn't be technicallly required, but
instead would be a courtesy and a double-check, so that the script wasn't
executed in inappropriate circumstances.

Cary



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  Re: Relocating errant messages
 
(...) It's an interesting thing, but very tricky do to without breaking news clients. The IBM internal discussion groups did have such a mechanism (they used custom software not NNTP), and even there, with a well controlled client, there were still (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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