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NNTP suggestion [message #16089]

Tue, 13 January 2004 20:23

Gribnif

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When importing newsgroup messages, you currently have the option to automatically create FUD accounts for posters. This has the big drawback that it can potentially create hundreds of accounts for users that will never use the forum itself.

So I have this option turned off. The problem with this is that all messages are labelled as coming from the anonymous (guest) user. This makes it difficult to see who really sent a message, and who sent the reply to it, because they all look like the same person.

So, I'd like to make two suggestions:

1. Put the real email address of the sender at the start of the message. So, if "foo(at)bar(dot)com" sends an email message to the newsgroup, the message might have the text "Message originally posted by foo(at)bar(dot)com" prepended at the top of the body. It doesn't have to go into the header, since I'd imagine that would be pretty difficult.

2. Add a new setting for the account to assign to these anonymous postings. Right now, my "Anonymous Coward" user is actually called "Guest". For newsgroups, however, I think it would be better to have an account called "Unknown Newsgroup User", so that it's more obvious to users what this means.

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		NNTP suggestion By: Gribnif on Tue, 13 January 2004 20:23
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Ilia on Tue, 13 January 2004 21:06
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Gribnif on Wed, 14 January 2004 20:12
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Ilia on Fri, 16 January 2004 18:15
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: KVentz on Tue, 20 January 2004 23:27
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Ilia on Tue, 20 January 2004 23:37
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: KVentz on Tue, 20 January 2004 23:43
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Squeebee on Tue, 20 January 2004 18:08
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Squeebee on Fri, 30 January 2004 20:14
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Ilia on Fri, 30 January 2004 20:52
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Squeebee on Fri, 30 January 2004 20:57
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Squeebee on Fri, 30 January 2004 20:58
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Anonymous on Sat, 31 January 2004 17:35
		Re: NNTP suggestion By: Squeebee on Mon, 02 February 2004 14:05

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