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Re: summaries on main page
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:48:38 GMT
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Todd:

> Hmm.  I wonder if a confirm/preview page on the web
> interface would help this as well as problems of
> forgetting or forgetting to test links.  The preview would
> show the article in a monospace font (not in the "All"
> view-mode of the web interface) but with
> hyperlink-detection activated for testing prior to final
> posting.

If you want to be really nice, you can make the script
generating the preview page check the URL's, and mark those
that return an error status in a distinct colour.

Play well,

Jacob (one of the really lazy guys)

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  Re: summaries on main page
 
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:48:38 GMT sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) wrote concerning 'Re: summaries on main page': (...) that'd be scary - while it's possible to make it safe to do so, I wouldn't want users to be able to tell my server (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: summaries on main page
 
(...) Oooh! --Todd (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Ya, Agreed. At the time the "Brief" view-mode was conjured up, there were relatively few messages going by with garbled line-endings, and it didn't show up much at all. People seem to be getting a lot more lazy these days about cleaning up (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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