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    Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email —Dan Boger
   (...) maybe I'm missing something, but show me again where the web interface is broken? I've never had a problem overriding it - but maybe I'm not getting the problem here? Dan (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email —Dan Boger
   (...) oh, nevermind, I see it. I guess we need to add another button in case the fut is poster, so that you'd have the option to reply-to poster, or via the web interface, override the entry. also the newsgroups field in the web interface should (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email —William R. Ward
     (...) I would suggest keeping the screen the same, but if the user clicks "Reply" it would take you to a new page that explains "The author of this message has set Followup-To: to 'poster', indicating that he or she wishes any replies to be sent via (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email —Steve Bliss
   (...) As an NNTP user, I'd say that poster should be allowed, since it seems to an NNTP-way of doing things. Steve (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email —Dan Boger
   (...) I wasn't suggesting we disallow "poster" FUTs, just combinations "newsgroup, poster" FUTs - are there any NNTP clients that support that kind of thing? actually let you reply to the group and the email? Dan (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email —Ross Crawford
     (...) The problem with allowing FUT:poster (as pointed out before) is that web posters get no chance to override it when they reply. You could get around this by allowing "poster" in the "newsgroups" field too (probably only without any other NGs), (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Allow posting & FUT to member email —Steve Bliss
   (...) Oh, ok. Sorry I didn't read carefully enough. (...) Forté Agent does -- when I went to reply to Ross' early message, I got a popup window, giving me the options of replying to the post by email, posting a reply to the newsgroup, or both. (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 

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