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Re: On web news interface, why is the poster's name dark or light?
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lugnet.faq
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Date:
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Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:14:46 GMT
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jsproat@io.AVOIDSPAMcom
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Hey FAQites,
Here's one more for then the FAQ mechanism comes on-line.
Cheers,
- jsproat
Todd Lehman wrote:
>
> In lugnet.admin.general, Will Middelaer writes:
> > I did several searches on Lugnet and could not find out why sometimes the
> > poster's name appears dark and sometimes light when readin news on the web
> > interface.
>
> In the "brief" article listings, names are displayed in black if there is
> a X-Real-Life-Name header contained in the article, otherwise the name is
> displayed in gray.
>
> 99% of the articles in the system have do contain the X-Real-Life-Name header,
> as they have been posted to LUGNET directly, but there are still three legacy
> mailing lists that are gatewayed[1] with various newsgroups, and the messages
> originating from those mailing lists are typically posted by people who
> haven't done the LUGNET news-posting setup for direct posting. Hence the
> graying for those.
>
> --Todd
>
> [1]
> ba-lego@cinnamon.com <==> lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf
> lego-robotics@crynwr.com <==> lugnet.robotics
> handyboard@media.mit.edu <==> lugnet.robotics.handyboard
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society
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