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Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 27 May 2005 19:34:46 GMT
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On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:09:50PM +0000, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Dan Boger wrote:
> > 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.
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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.
But that means you need to store two copies of FTX posts - one
converted, and one not. Not that that's a bad thing, but it's something
to think about.
As for tables, we'll have to use your old code (or to write new code)
that will convert the silly '~' format into tables.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) Well, I figured that'd be quicker than doing the conversion every time. Disk space is cheap. CPU isn't as much. (...) My old code? I wrote something for work that translated html into textural tables, but can't use that... Plus, tables with (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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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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