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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 (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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