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Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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Date: 
Wed, 28 May 2003 12:52:26 GMT
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neat - can we make something that will filter out all the FTX in mail
and NNTP?  Currently, all the new posts show up as text/x-ftx, and until
I tell mutt that that's plain text (with some noise), it doesn't display
it at all.  But cool for the web interface users :)  Attack of the
animated gif sigs :)

Dan



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  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) I guess I'll reserve comment until I see how this gets used, but I'm really hoping it doesn't sound a death knell for use of news readers. One favor to ask though, while URL links show up as still clickable in a newsreader, all the nifty set (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Actually, could there be a cookie setting to turn them off (IE strip them out, not just show raw text) in the web interface? Personally, I never could stand signatures with images and all the other fancy, colorful junk that often gets thrown (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Hmm...maybe Content-Type: text/x-ftx isn't the right thing to set. I didn't expect it to confuse NNTP clients...but now that you mention it, it makes sense. If it instead said Content-Type: text/plain what do you think would be a good header (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
Good suggestion. While sometimes I may like to play, it could annoy some people unintentionally, so by all means; if an FTX filter for E-mail and NNTP could be implimented - That would be great. I'm no expert, but the thought is there. e (...) snip (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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