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Re: [Pan-users] Automatic crossposting.
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Duncan |
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Re: [Pan-users] Automatic crossposting. |
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Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:23:16 -0700 |
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On Thu 17 Jul 2003 11:59, Eric Ortega posted as excerpted below:
> Is there a way to get PAN to automatically crosspost to a particular
> group?
This isn't likely to make it into a pan-main distributed version, since
x-posting is normally discouraged -- thus the PAN GNKSA compliant warning
when one attempts to x-post. GNKSA compliance has been noted as a high
priority by Charles and other developers, so anything (possibly excluding an
eventual GUI point&click browse for groups rather than having to type them
in) that makes it easier to x-post isn't likely to make it into official PAN
sources.
That isn't to say you can't d/l sources, and create and apply your own patch,
to do so.
Talking about which.. Here's an idea.. What about creating a /patches
directory on pan.rebelbase, where unapproved for main/binary distribution,
but contributed by users patches could be placed? Versions they were created
off of would have to be tracked, and a disclaimer README could mention they
were designed to apply to the version they were created for and may not be
updated for new versions since it was a user contribution based system. A
further disclaimer would be "unsupported, possibly security compromised,
apply at your own risk" etc. However, this would prevent folks that wanted
to do mods from having to reinvent the wheel if there was an earlier
contribution for that purpose, even if they DID have to modify it some to
apply the patch to the current version.
A pointer web page could be set up with the same disclaimer/warnings. One
single web page, since folks applying the patches should be able to navigate
the plain dir and find what they wished if they are qualified to appreciate
the risk involved and apply the patch.
--
Duncan - List replies preferred.
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