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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:09:28 GMT
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:21:48PM +0000, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > It'd be really cool to take an open-source NNTP client and add FTX
> > rendering to it...
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> Are you in the mood to study how to add new modes to Emacs? Or do you
> think it is easier to hack something into the Mozilla renderer?
I haven't looked at XUL writing, but I think it shouldn't be too hard
for the java gurus. If I was going to write it, I'd probably try the
Emacs way, with some lisp hackery.
Or, better yet, write an NNTP proxy that will do the translation on the
fly - then you could use whatever NNTP client you want :)
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) But which format would you translate it to? Wouldn't you have to translate the FTX articles to HTML to get the inlined images? And wouldn't that limit the practical number of NNTP clients slightly? - But of course not as much as implementing (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) The web interface is bandwidth-heavy and it hasn't much memory of _my_ actions. (...) Gnus isn't strictly text-only. Neither is Mozilla. Pine is text-only. (...) Are you in the mood to study how to add new modes to Emacs? Or do you think it is (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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