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Re: Web interface for cancelling articles
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Sat, 6 Apr 2002 12:53:20 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Schilling writes:
> > There should be a web interface for cancelling articles. This can be done
> > with other posting methods.
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> I see the reasoning behind this, but I don't think it's necessary. Note that
> SMTP & NNTP messages *cannot* be cancelled
Um, not following you here at all. LUGNET is nntp underneath and nntp news
servers allow cancel. When you send a note to Suz asking that she cancel
something for you (giving a precise reference to it and a clear indication
that it was you doing it) what I believe she actually does is cancel the
article via nntp.
If you use the nntp interface you can do it yourself, or previously could,
anyway. Are you saying that function is no longer there (I no longer use
nntp, as web generally blows it away in my view)?
Preview of articles is NOT at all the same thing as cancellation. Cancelling
sometimes becomes necessary (or advisable) only after something is posted
and turns out not to be a good idea. In an ideal world, everyone would
consider their words very carefully, of course.
> once they've been authorised (via
> either authentication method) - the exact same functionality can be obtained
> by using the preview button on the web interface, just consider "preview" as
> equivalent to initial post, "post" is equivalent to "authorise". The only
> difference is that web-posters aren't *forced* to use this method.
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> Interestingly, one of my other favourite message boards, Slashdot, only
> allows posting articles via the web, and *does* force at least one preview
> before allowing you to submit the article. Maybe Lugnet should also do this.
> Note that further changes can be made, and you're not forced to preview
> again, so it's not perfect.
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> This highlights the point about being able to edit your post during
> authentication, but that's been brought up elsewhere
> http://news.lugnet.com/admin/suggestions/?n=25
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> ROSCO
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| (...) Uh, I stand corrected. So I guess that is one feature NNTP users have over SMTP & HTTP. I guess for web users, the best way would be to have a "cancel" button on the message view page (with associated confirm page). For logged in users, it (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) I see the reasoning behind this, but I don't think it's necessary. Note that SMTP & NNTP messages *cannot* be cancelled once they've been authorised (via either authentication method) - the exact same functionality can be obtained by using the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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