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Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 27 May 2005 18:32:06 GMT
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On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:33:49PM +0000, Frank Filz wrote:
> Take a look at this post:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=26936
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> in a newsreader or in raw form, hmm, you'll have to look at it in a
> newsreader, here's what I see when I look at the raw form:
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> Xref: lugnet.com lugnet.off-topic.debate:26936
> Newsgroups: lugnet.off-topic.debate
> Path: lugnet.com!lugnet
> From: "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com>
> X-Real-Life-Name: Dave Schuler
> Subject: Re: A few things...
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> X-Content-Ftx: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> Organization: None
> X-Nntp-Gateway: http://www.lugnet.com/news/post/
> Message-ID: <IH4s2D.Do8@lugnet.com>
> X-Member-Id: 1982
> References: <HBn579.24Ir@lugnet.com> <HBn5Jz.yE@lugnet.com>
> <HBny95.LCF@lugnet.com> <IH2A01.uLL@lugnet.com> <IH2DAs.1IIr@lugnet.com>
> <IH3Ey4.1KEG@lugnet.com> <IH3oqC.192y@lugnet.com> <IH3srK.21EH@lugnet.com>
> <IH4n9u.1F8M@lugnet.com> <IH4pvq.21nw@lugnet.com>
> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: lugnet.com
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 04:20:37 GMT
> X-Http-Re0
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> No content at all, in fact, that last header looks truncated. Something's
> wrong with the raw form.
Um, looks ok when I look at it?
> In any case, FTX which was supposed to leave posts mostly readable in
> NNTP or raw form apparently doesn't require newlines before list
> element tags, so as a result, it's possible to post a huge list as one
> massive block of text without any newlines, totally unreadable.
> Without FTX formatting, the poster would presumably insert the
> newlines for readability (though some posters just stream of
> conscience dump without breaking up into paragraphs).
I do agree that FTX needs to degrade much more nicely into plain text
than it does. If we change FTX though, we'll need to think of what to
do with older FTX posts.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) I don't think I'd change FTX-- I think I'd vote for an FTX->plain text converter, and run that on any FTX posts. Then, when someone requests the post via NNTP or SMTP, that's the post they get. It would probably do things like: - remove square (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| Take a look at this post: (URL) a newsreader or in raw form, hmm, you'll have to look at it in a newsreader, here's what I see when I look at the raw form: Xref: lugnet.com lugnet.off-topic.debate:26936 Newsgroups: lugnet.off-topic.debate Path: (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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