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Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Wed, 28 May 2003 17:06:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, David Eaton wrote:
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

If there were a settting where you could specify not to embed images above a
certain size, would that work?

--Todd



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  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
Quoting Todd Lehman <todd@lugnet.com>: (...) I, myself, wouldn't want to see *any*. An animated gif, no matter how small, is still terribly annoying. I suspect it won't be long before people have banners and avatars at the bottom of EVERY post, and (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Better, I suppose-- However, something that forced signatures to plain text might help too. That way at least only pictures that were part of the post content would show up. But yes, in general it might be nice to somehow restrict image size. (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  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)

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