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In lugnet.lego.direct, Thomas Stangl writes:
> Of course, this does no good whatsoever for people who use newsreaders (you
> know, those things for reading, uh, news).
ya, it's a web-only thing.
> Have you looked further into appending footers/headers when they want to
> make an official announcement?
Yes and no... Yes, thought about it a bit. No, didn't write any code toward
that. IMHO, anyone sophisticated enough to be using a real newsreader is also
sophisticated enough to recognize an @lego.com address in a message header in
combination with an official signature at the message footer. On the technical
side, forcibly adding a footer to the messages means also removing it in any
(sloppy) replies where it didn't get removed by the person replying...a task
not terribly problematic from a code implementation and testing standpoint,
but introducing a level of confusing redundancy.
Also thought about the possibility of using the X-Face NNTP extension header
in which you can embed a tiny graphic image (it's supposed to be a photo of
the face of the person who posted the message) -- and possibly using that for
the tiny red square... But how many people are running newsreaders which
support that extension? And of those who are, who many aren't sophisticated
enough to already recognize an official post as such?
Ok anyway I'm not saying it won't happen, just that I think it's nice in
theory but arguably unnecessary in practice...plus there are always bigger
fish to fry. :-)
--Todd
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| Of course, this does no good whatsoever for people who use newsreaders (you know, those things for reading, uh, news). Have you looked further into appending footers/headers when they want to make an official announcement? (...) -- Tom Stangl (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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