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Re: LUGNET getting too complex?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:53:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Michael Hopkins writes:
> Before you know it, a single message is crossposted to 5-10 different groups.
> Now instead of the group hierarchy helping me out, it is causing me to have to
> skip over the SAME message several different times. This is counterproductive
> and interferes with the idea of only having to read what is pertainant to my
> group.
:) Yup agree lots.. I think a *great* suggestion is made in this post:
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=3275
By Will Middelaer.. basically he suggests that when a web-interface user hits
'post message', before it is sent to the server, if the message is crossposted,
then an intermediate screen comes up which has checkboxes next to each group.
So the user can choose to crosspost to all those groups, or deselect a few, or
possibly enter a follow-up group in a text-entry box. It's all there in the
link - I'm just explaining for NNTP and news-by-mail folks :)
It would dramatically reduce the amount of crosspost-noise from web-interface
users - it's done because it's easy to just hit reply and forget about the
groups - not because of malice!
I think it's a fantastic idea, but I don't know what the status (if any) on it
is :/
Richard
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