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Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 04:24:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Larry Pieniazek writes:
FUTs are, at the root, suggestions, not mandates. Proper ettiquette suggests
careful use of them, yes, but it is rude to prevent the responder from
setting FUT as he sees fit if he has good reason for doing so.

I agree completely.

But that's not the issue that started all this.  The request was, as the
subject says, to "allow posting & FUT to member email".  This issue is solved
by the use of "Followup-To: poster".

Well arguably it's not solved. No more or less than the problem of 2
termites in your house would be solved by blowing the entire house up,
anyway. (it's late, forgive my poor analogy, but the idea is that the fix
isn't a fix if it's worse than the problem)

But this being suggestions, I suggest we let it lie fallow for a while
rather than starting a new thread.



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  Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
 
(...) The original question has been addressed: you can allow posting & FUT to member email. The fact that a bug in the LUGNET web interface has been brought to light doesn't change that. It's a new issue. --Bill. (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
 
(...) I agree completely. But that's not the issue that started all this. The request was, as the subject says, to "allow posting & FUT to member email". This issue is solved by the use of "Followup-To: poster". However, a *new* issue has arisen as (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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