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(...) You are certainly right, however using NNTP to get your awareness raised for new developments in your favorite newsgroup (or boards, as forum jargon would put it) could be quite helpful. I find myself using this means at least for some groups (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One solution would be an FTX enabled news reader. There is no reason why a news reader could not process the FTX. Another thing a customized Lugnet newsreader could do is post via the web interface. I don't think it would be too tricky to get (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The easiest solution would be to convert FTX in NNTP message files into HTML; most NNTP browsers understand embedded HTML. And then rewrite the web-posting modules to convert FTX to "safe" HTML (ie. rejecting JavaScript injection or other (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's a really good idea, Michael. There is already an internal function for rendering FTX as HTML, which could be reused for this. It might be a good idea to filter out any JS injection attempts in URLs, which would benefit the web-based (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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