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    Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups Todd Lehman
   (...) 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 —Jennifer L. Boger
     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 Todd Lehman
     (...) Ya, the setting would have to go all the way down to zero, of course. --Todd (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups —David Eaton
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups Todd Lehman
   (...) It's technically impossible, of course, to detect what a signature is. If you go by internet standards, then the line "-- " (that's two hyphens followed by a single space, followed by a newline character) is a standard signature delimiter -- (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups —Dave Johann
     (...) Now this is the stuff I'd like to see go away. I've never seen a post that is enhanced by 87 lines of text as a sig file. Pictures I can filter out if need be. Text is something I can't. -Dave (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups —David Eaton
   (...) Yeah, that's what I had remembered-- that Lugnet picked up on signatures at least when they adhered to the standard. I've never been one to take specific notice, but I was under the impression that most readers would automatically prepend "-- (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 

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