Web newsgroups more accessible
Everyone knows (and hates) exquisitus — the default username for Eclipse newsgroups. Last week Matt removed the authentication from the Web news portal making it even more accessible. Two things were blocking this — the need to spam-proof email addresses (we did that long ago) and the need to prevent spambots from being able to post their junk on our clean newsgroups.
Matt added the most basic (read: simple, easy, but effective) of captchas to the ‘Post’ form, so we should be covered. Enjoy!
A forum/newsgroup you can read and write, but don’t need to register for… How many of those are left on the ‘Net today?
Posted May 12th, 2008 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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AlBlue Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I think this is great news. Hopefully more people will be encouraged to join in now that there’s an easier-to-access web portal for all the newsgroups (and not just some of them).
Good work guys!
Alex
Prakash G.R. Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
This looks good.
Quite often we see people doing cross posting. If the web interface allows people to post a message to multiple groups, it will be much better
Bananeweizen Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Did you think about using reCAPTCHA? It has the “side effect” of proof reading digitized books, so the users time is not fully wasted: http://recaptcha.net/
Denis Roy Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Alex: thanks. Slowly but surely, I say.
Prakash: it does, but it’s a ‘hidden’ feature. cross-posting is often known as pure evil, but try playing with the URL.
bana: I read about it some time ago, but I’m kinda low on cycles. This was easier.
Julz Says:
May 14th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
For Denis : Long time no see. I am an old friend just wanted to have some news about you reading your blog and comments and information well… you did pretty good for yourself… Take Care!! xx