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Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:43:51 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> Just occurred to me earlier today - someone said it's too bad you can't
> view links like <set:8880> in the newsreader - then I thought, why can't
> we put a filter between incoming messages and the news DB to make it
> possible? basically move the processing part of the <> tags from the
> web interface to the backbone... then in the newsreader you'll see
> http://www.lugnet.com/?query=8880.... which most newsreaders will
> transform to a working link...
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> comments? Is it even possible?
It needs to be a late-binding thing. The conversion from
<set:8880>
to
<A HREF="/pause/search/?query=8880"><set:8880></A>
in the web interface happens at on-the-fly only at display-time.
If you have a highly configurable newsreader (like something integrated into
Emacs), then it wouldn't be too tough to insert some smarts in the viewer
which did this same URL transmogrification.
--Todd
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| (...) oh, I've no problem - just thought it'd be easier for less configurable newsreaders... I just set CTRL-ALT-P to take whatever's in the clipboard, and pop up two windows for me - text info (name, etc.) and an XV windows with the picture... the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Just occurred to me earlier today - someone said it's too bad you can't view links like <set:8880> in the newsreader - then I thought, why can't we put a filter between incoming messages and the news DB to make it possible? basically move the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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