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Re: Message awaiting authentication
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Date:
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Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:15:43 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:Hoz7Hn.DC2@lugnet.com...
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> > Then perhaps revisiting this discussion will produce a solution for
> > NNTP users. Keep talking.
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> Perhaps a clever coder could screenscrape LUGNET's web interface to give • posting
> capabilities from their own private NNTP server fed article stream? • (perhaps
> supplied by the "avid" technology or something? I dunno) Meaning that the
> screenscraper logged the user in, did the post, and then logged out or • similar?
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> I think a sufficiently clever coder could have done it by now if there was • a
> large perceived need.
Screen-scraping is a hack. It'd be much better to simply use an NNTP server
as the data store for the existing forums (instead of the normal database).
This could be supplemented by a "rich functionality" data base that would
store profile info, silly icons and other things web forum users seem to
love.
Here's an example of how one company was able to base their web-based forums
off of NNTP architecture:
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx
The best of both worlds, people can communicate directly - or via NNTP
without pesky message approvals.
Also, it should be a trivial task to send a verification message the first
time someone posts and then not ask them again on subsequent visits.
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| (...) Perhaps a clever coder could screenscrape LUGNET's web interface to give posting capabilities from their own private NNTP server fed article stream? (perhaps supplied by the "avid" technology or something? I dunno) Meaning that the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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