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<h2>User Administration</h2>

part of the <a href="index.html">ArsDigita Community System</a>
by <a href="http://photo.net/philg/">Philip Greenspun</a>

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In <a href="/admin/users/">/admin/users/</a>, as elsewhere in the ACS,
we try to follow the Macintosh user interface style:

<ul>
<li>pick the object, then
<li>pick the verb
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So we want to help the publisher pick up a group of users (the object)
and then pick something to do with those users (the verb).  Here's an
example:

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"I am interested in users whose email address ends in "mit.edu" and who've
either posted at least one entry in the last six months into a particular
discussion forum or who have explicitly said that they're interested in
learning more about large format photography.  Once I've seen how many
there are, I would like to spam them."

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As different installations of the ACS will have different active modules
and different publisher interest, we actually need a way for a publisher
to formally specify "these are the kinds of ways I'd like to select out
users".

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<a href="http://photo.net/philg/"><address>philg@mit.edu</address></a>
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