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Re: Posting history
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 19 Oct 2000 01:41:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford writes:
What's the possibility of being able to browse a particular member's posting
history? [...]

Right now, distant.  Articles aren't indexed on the 'From:' header, and to
make things more complicated on top of that, some people have multiple
'From:' headers and there isn't anything that associates them.

But don't they have to post using one of the e-mail addresses in their posting
setup? Of course, there could be problems if the address is deleted later - you
could get around that by just marking rather than deleting them, but you'll
probably have trouble with historical posts...oh well, I guess it wasn't really
urgent, anyway 8?)

ROSCO



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  Re: Posting history
 
(...) Yes. What I meant was that there isn't a table or association or anything that says the following two lines are the same person: From: Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> From: Todd Lehman <lehman@fibblesnork.com> And it certainly can't assume (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

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(...) Right now, distant. Articles aren't indexed on the 'From:' header, and to make things more complicated on top of that, some people have multiple 'From:' headers and there isn't anything that associates them. --Todd (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

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