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Subject: 
Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Fri, 27 May 2005 22:34:59 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Frank Filz wrote:
> Take a look at this post:
> 
> http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=26936
> 
> 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:

snip

> No content at all, in fact, that last header looks truncated. Something's
> wrong with the raw form.

I see the full post, as I do with the link below - maybe the truncation problem
is at your end?

> 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.

FTX DOES require newlines before list elements. The problem here is that Dave
chose not to use list elements.

ROSCO



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
(...) Are you looking at the FTX post, or the raw form? The raw URL is: (URL) (21 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
(...) What's a list element? Dave! (21 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Please consider fixing FTX...
 
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: (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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