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Re: Dat posting idea for users of Agent
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:08:35 GMT
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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:23:01 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) writes:
> > I just had a good idea for simplifying posting of .dat files to
> > cad.dat. - at least for users of Forte's Agent. Maybe this could
> > work for other newsreaders?
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> I guess it would work for any newsreader that doesn't allow a newsgroup-
> by-newsgroup line-length setting and does allow multiple installations.
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> > [...]
> > Pretty slick. A dedicated newsreader for dat postings. :-)
> > Feeling purty clever......
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> Pretty slick, yup. :-) But pretty perverse too. :-)
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> I was thinking of at some point (after I get the uploading fixed)
> requiring that DAT files be posted via the web interface only, and not
> allow postings to .cad.dat.* via a newsreader or the e-mail gateway.
> The reasons for this would be:
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> 1) Guarantee proper line lengths; no more line-wrapping issues.
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> 2) Make it possible to embed special codes in the article which make
> extraction of the .DAT content easier & faster & more foolproof.
> Would alleviate the need for a scanner/parser at fetch-time. Perhaps
> these special codes would be some simple character sequence or perhaps
> it should simply use MIME.
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> --Todd
Arghh! You mean to undermine my perverse, er, clever idea!
Yeah, I guess if it would make everything works smoother, that would be OK.
But you could still reply to cad.dat posts from a newsreader, right? Cause I
don't really care for using the web interface.
-- Terry K --
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