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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 20:31:18 GMT
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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:45:41PM +0000, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dan Boger wrote:
> > [...] 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.
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> Hmm...maybe
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> Content-Type: text/x-ftx
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> 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
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> Content-Type: text/plain
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> what do you think would be a good header to set in order to signify
> the FTX content?
well - it'll display (btw, I got text/x-ftx to display too - mutt
rocks)... but it won't "signify" anything but a plain text message.
And considering that some of the FTX chars are NOT plain text, it'll be
a lie. I think the best solution would be to have a FTX to text filter,
(maybe two way?) so that email clients (and NNTP) would really get plain
text, that they can understand.
Dan
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 | | Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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| (...) OK, that's fine. It's supposed to be readable as raw ASCII in newsreaders. (...) I'm not sure what you mean. Plain text doesn't imply assumptions about character sets. You can have UTF8 or US-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 all in plain text. All of the (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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| (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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