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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 17:41:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, David Eaton wrote:
> 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.
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
-- and everything below that line is the signature. (The web interface here
observes this standard, BTW, and clips the signature automatically when you
reply.) But if someone really wants to put crap in their signature, they can
simply write it in at the bottom without the "-- " marker. There's no way to
stop or even detect that programmatically.
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* * Todd Lehman - <todd@lugnet.com> * *
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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| (...) 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
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| (...) 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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| | Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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| (...) 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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