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Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Date:
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Tue, 9 Apr 2002 04:35:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.
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> > I agree completely.
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> > 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".
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> 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)
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.
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Allow web users to override "FUT: poster"
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| (...) So lets solve it. Can the web interface be changed to bring up the web reply screen when replying to posts with FUT set to "poster"[1]? ROSCO [1] What happens if you set FUT to (eg) lugnet.admin.suggest...ns,poster? I've tried it here to see. (24 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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