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Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Wed, 28 May 2003 16:35:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dan Boger wrote:
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 :)

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 in with posts on other forums. Lugnet was kind of a nice break from that.
Not to mention being "safe" to view at work (shame on me). Anyone can spot that
you're not doing work when you're on a site plauged with fancy colors and images
:)

DaveE



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) I agree, while it's an interesting feature, I'd really rather there not be any images contained in lugnet posts. Is it really that hard to deep-link to a brickshelf image instead? It quite frankly draws your attention away from the text, and (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) If there were a settting where you could specify not to embed images above a certain size, would that work? --Todd (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) That's a really good point, and so true!!! We gotta help each other out. Gotta love it. Free thought and brick treats while in the machine. I get the job done and always manage in a little fun. No shame there. e (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
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 (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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