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Subject: 
Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
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...

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">&lt;set:8880&gt;</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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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