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(...) 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)
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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)
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(...) 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 © -- someone presumably has originally written Copyright © 1999 Blah blah blah (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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)
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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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(...) 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)
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