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Re: BRICKFEST MOONBASE (follow-up count)
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:20:08 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
  
   Only trouble is, it didn’t recognize my signature file. Signature files should be treated as literal text when submitted using a newsreader;

I don’t know about that. You marked the content type, which applies to the entire message body. I’m not sure I want want to go out of my way to support posting in FTX from an NNTP newsreader either, if doing so means making kludges like that. :)

Maybe we could define some optional add-on header that says, “Please interpret my sig as plain text even if I’m posting in FTX from an NNTP newsreader.”

--Todd



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  Re: BRICKFEST MOONBASE (follow-up count)
 
(...) If you're using NNTP it's very unlikely that a .signature file is going to be FTX-safe.... I think that an exception in this case is warranted. (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: BRICKFEST MOONBASE (follow-up count)
 
(...) Oh, BTW, the use of the 'Content-Type:' header isn't guaranteed to be supported forever. The server now posts FTX messages using a different header, because 'Content-Type: text/x-ftx' was causing problems for MSOE users (and some other (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)

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