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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:09:21 GMT
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Dan Boger wrote:
> > > It'd be really cool to take an open-source NNTP client and add FTX
> > > rendering to it...
> Or, better yet, write an NNTP proxy that will do the translation on the
> fly - then you could use whatever NNTP client you want :)
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 it only for a single NNTP client?
Play well,
Jacob
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| (...) I think if we have a proxy that understands FTX and can translate it, the output format shouldn't be set - have that part be pluggable, so you could have it output html, or plain text, or anything else we can think of. Just have the proxy (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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