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Subject: 
Re: Relocating errant messages
Newsgroups: 
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 (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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