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| (...) OK, that's fine. It's supposed to be readable as raw ASCII in newsreaders. (...) I'm not sure what you mean. Plain text doesn't imply assumptions about character sets. You can have UTF8 or US-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 all in plain text. All of the (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Suggestions on limit values? Standard sig size according to RFC 1855 (URL) 4 lines -- but that's a "rule of thumb" and not something written in stone (I think 'rn' or some other newsreader I used once upon a time enforced it, however). I'm (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) What it it were (optionally) as simple as *zero* clicks -- automatically turned on or off based on subnet? That's how I think things like 'From:' line selection should default (for people who have two e-mail addresses that they post from). If (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Individual Membership enrollment now open
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| (...) Unfortunately, the design of FTX is somewhat flawed when it comes to standard news and mail readers. Enclosing a URL in angle brackets <...> is a hint to most news/mail readers that a long URL that spans more than one line should be (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Have you seen a news/mail reader that actually implements that behavior? I don't believe that behavior is even defined in any RFC, is it??? I've heard about line-joining before, but only with the notation <URL:url> (...) But it was designed to (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) If any links are showing up wrong in someone's plain-text news/mail reader (meaning that the clickable link is underlined wrongly), by all means please make a screenshot and let's assess the damage. Most likely the news/mail client is just (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: ">" line wrapping subtleties
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| (...) Normally, no, but in this case I was going through and doing heavy tweakage to the original text to make it a bit more interesting to read. (...) Er, sorta. I actually did most of the reformat myself, by deleting ">" marks in the middle of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Hey Todd, how about when you post to a group you don't normally use, you get the reply's to your post sent to you automatically via E-mail. Occaisionally I post to groups that I don't subscribe to, and I then have to keep checking the web interface (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Hmmm, I don't recall ever seeing this happen before either, but I'll bet it happens a lot (or at least more often than we notice). Here's what the logs say happened: John posted the message on June 7 using the web interface. He wasn't signed (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) Definitely! However, the FTX link notation was designed to work flawlessly with plain text. If your news or mail reader isn't displaying the links correctly, it's broken! --Todd (21 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Nope, you didn't do anything bad -- your links were beautiful. :-) (...) It's conceivable that there might be a really poorly written miscreant newsreader/e-mail client in existence out there somewhere that get confused and think that the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | New e-mail address for Frank Filz
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| My primary e-mail address has been getting absolutely swamped with junk mail, and my e-mail quota has been filling up in the space of a couple hours. This is resulting in me losing e-mail, so I am switching to a new e-mail address that is less (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) They're not actually broken in plain text format -- Chris was merely confused by seeing the spaces and thought they were broken. (...) It really shouldn't be a problem. But if you choose plain text and omit the <>'s around the URL, make sure (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Message date anomoly?
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| "Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> skrev i meddelandet news:HGLK4o.JG9@lugnet.com... (...) using (...) confirmation. (...) the (...) Yeah, this happens to me all the time. Mostly my posts are sent the day _after_ I write them (If I don't remember to (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Todd: (...) Yes. Mozilla does. I'm 99% sure that Eudora does as well. I'm quite sure that there are many others. Since I do not run Microsoft products, I have no idea what they do. (...) The relevant RFC is RFC1738 in the appendix. Alas, most people (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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