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  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) 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 "-- (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) 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 (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) 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 -- (...) (22 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. (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Ya, the setting would have to go all the way down to zero, of course. --Todd (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  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 (...) (22 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 (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Hmm...maybe Content-Type: text/x-ftx isn't the right thing to set. I didn't expect it to confuse NNTP clients...but now that you mention it, it makes sense. If it instead said Content-Type: text/plain what do you think would be a good header (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)


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