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  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
(...) snip (...) I see the full post, as I do with the link below - maybe the truncation problem is at your end? (...) FTX DOES require newlines before list elements. The problem here is that Dave chose not to use list elements. ROSCO (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
(...) Are you looking at the FTX post, or the raw form? The raw URL is: (URL) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
(...) What's a list element? Dave! (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
(...) (URL) (FTX User Guide) has more info. * = bullet + = numbered - = numbered but in descending order Hope that helps. (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
(...) Ah, yes--now I see. I manually numbered my list of sage suggestions without realizing that an FTX option was available. Thanks Dave! (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
(...) Out of curiosity, when you wrote the post, how did you add in the newlines? That is, when I'm writing a post in FTX, I almost NEVER use the character for newlines. Instead, I forget. This causes problems like this: Pieces That Are Awesome: - (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
 
  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
(...) Like I said, I'm not playing to the cheap seats. Newsreaders Be Darned! Honestly, it never even occurred to me. I've accessed LUGNET via the web ever since I started reading it, and the foibles of the newsreader interface have been, at best, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
 
  Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
 
Hmm, it seems more and more folks are creating FTX posts with FTX hard new lines without a real new line. If these are being created in the web editor, could it reasonably force a real new line? It's slowly getting to the point that NNTP access to (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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