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    Re: markup syntax for member pages —John Matthews
   Regarding the comments for a markup language: I'm no genius and I learned the most basic HTML 1.0 in about 15 seconds. I think it is very easy to understand and completely intuitive. Why would I want to learn another markup language? A proprietary (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: markup syntax for member pages —Todd Lehman
   (...) If HTML were chosen, then not only would it require a full-blown HTML parser/ validator to prevent garbage like <TABLE BORDER=8 CELLPADDING=10 BGCOLOR="#FF0000"><TR><TD> <FONT COLOR="#00FF00" SIZE="+4"><B> <BLINK>THIS IS MY <BIG>COOL</BIG> (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: markup syntax for member pages —Jacob Sparre Andersen
     Todd: Just a minor detail. (...) This one is actually legal. I think your suggestion looks fine (but it isn't much work to handle HTML if you use nsgmls[1]). Play well, Jacob 1) <URL:(URL) is generated by a _tcsh_ script that uses nsgmls for parsing (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: markup syntax for member pages —Todd Lehman
     (...) Omitting the ; isn't deprecated and highly discouraged? I guess that wasn't a good example, anyway. The one I've seen people have the most trouble with is &copy; -- someone presumably has originally written Copyright &copy 1999 Blah blah blah (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: markup syntax for member pages —Todd Lehman
     (...) heh heh, well, I guess geocities is out of the picture now, given the bad press they're getting: (URL) this whole recent Yahoo!/GeoCities stink yet another reason not to do full HTML hosting here. Not out of fear, but out of wisdom. The more (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: markup syntax for member pages —Steve Bliss
     (...) they'll be OK. I see they've taken another step closer to this (the first step was to explicit state that they don't own the content, but that was actually a non-step). Now, they only claim a license to do whatever they want with the content (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: markup syntax for member pages —John Matthews
   Thanks Todd for your concise explanation. It indeed makes sense. It did not occur to me that folks would use other that the most *simple* html tags. I guess that is why I am not a sysadmin type guy! Keep up the great work! John Matthews Todd Lehman (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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