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Re: Extra characters
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:05:10 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Brandon Harris wrote:
>  While all the extra {braces} and [brackets] and {[braces and
>  brackets]} surrounding text now and then must be nice looking
>  in the web version (they apparantly get translated to html
>  versions of bold and italic and the like), they make the
>  ascii versions of these news posts rather unreadable.  I
>  get this through mail;  not via the web.
> 
>  Is there an option I can flip that removes all these extra
>  characters, like a "send me messages in plain text" option?
>  (which I thought there was, and I thought I had set.)

don't you think this belong elsewhere than .space?

XFUT to lugnet.admin.suggestions

-Lenny



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  Re: Extra characters
 
(...) If you think that's bad, see Jake's recent post - with all the '¬' instead of CRs, it's just not readable. I hope one day there'll be a filter to translate FTX into plain text, for all us email/news users. I could implement something on my (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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