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Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Wed, 28 May 2003 16:45:00 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, David Eaton wrote:
> 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 :)
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> 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
> :)
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> DaveE
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 is an eyesore to me. I'd be satisfied, though with a conversion of
inline images into links for those who don't wish for that feature to be
represented on their screen if there are lots of people who think this is a good
idea.
Adrian
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http://www.brickfrenzy.com
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| Popping in for a second. I *mostly* use a newsreader still, so much of this doesn't effect me, but I still think it's a cool move to add some more dimension to Lugnet. As for people worrying about large or animated sig banners... The community has (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) 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)
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