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Re: Extra characters
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:56:12 GMT
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:05:10AM +0000, leonard hoffman wrote:
> 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.
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> > 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.)
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> don't you think this belong elsewhere than .space?
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 end, but that won't help anyone else.
Without such a filter, I agree with what Frank said (I believe) - the
news/email interface is doomed!
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Extra characters
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| (...) This is not actually a shortcoming of FTX but a stylistic error. The forced line break character is not the only way to cause a <BR>. 99% of the time, in fact, the forced line break character is never needed. Of the 26 forced line break (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
| | | Re: Extra characters
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| (...) I agree, while FTX might have added something useful for web interface users, so far I (using a newsreader) only see negative things. And sorry, not prepared to move to webbased posting right now. (23 years ago, 14-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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