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Subject: 
Re: I am officially curious...
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lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 03:31:43 GMT
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"Steve Bliss" <partsref@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Go5DH7.In2@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.general, Dan Boger writes:
if it bothers you that much, why don't you just post via the web • interface?
no verification there?

I don't know about that Steven, but this one would rather read in a
newsreader.  Unfortunately, this means that to start a reply on the web
requires going through the process of:

Press [H] to display the headers (I'm using Forte Agent).
Select'n'Copy the message id.
Open a browser.
Type in the url http://news.lugnet.com/[newsgroup]?n=[messageid]
Hit Enter
Wait while the message (and all the accompanying web-iage) is retrieved
Hit Reply

This isn't brain surgery, and you even memorize it after awhile.  But it's • a
lot harder than just clicking the Reply button.

Not that I want verification to go away.  But it's a pain to read with a
newsreader, and reply via the web.

Steve

I use Outlook Express to read LUGNET as I personally find the web interface
painful to use.  The verification process is realtively simple.  If I want
to reply to a message, I hit the "Reply" button in OE just like I always
have.  Once my message is composed and sent I check for new mail in Outlook
where I almost always have a confirmation e-mail from the LUGNET server.  I
reply to it with an "X" in the box and I am done.  No need to invoke the
LUGNET web interface for anything.

It is one extra step that I didn't used to have to do but I am more than
willing to do that to keep NNTP access to LUGNET.  If it went to an only web
interface I doubt I would post very much if at all.

Now if only I could convince Dan Jezik to support NNTP for the Brickbay
forum ...  ;-)

Mike


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(...) I don't know about that Steven, but this one would rather read in a newsreader. Unfortunately, this means that to start a reply on the web requires going through the process of: Press [H] to display the headers (I'm using Forte Agent). (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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