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(...) I think it doesn't hurt to allow <BLOCKQUOTE> -- but I'm having trouble imagning places where it would be useful. Heh heh, maybe in acutal block quotes? :-) "Four score an seven years ago . . . --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Well, if you look at my FAQ submissions (and you'll have to save them as files and open in a web browser to see the formatting) you'll see that I put BLOCKQUOTE and P around all my URLs to make them stand out. Here are a couple examples of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) 1. there is accidental space around the 'foo' in <a href="xxx"> foo </a> which will cause the links to display improperly. Really it should say <a href="xxx">foo</a> for proper links. 2. All of the URLs are written out twice. Is that really (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Accidental to you maybe, but it was no accident to me. I left space on either side of anchor text to make it more readable. I did that because right now everyone is limited to reading raw FAQ entries. (...) Yes. If the formatting and (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Okay, I've got a little more on the BLOCKQUOTE issue now. I had to load the entire newsgroup on my local machine and use my special MIRA tools to search it in order to figure this out. Here are the only non-Robert-Munafo FAQ answers that use (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Couldn't these theoretical tools be a little smarter? (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Aha! OK, forgive me -- I assumed it was either an accident or some penchant for doing that sort of thing. Looking at your web pages (which I love, BTW!), of course, you don't have anything weird at all like that there, so that ruled out the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Robert Munafo: (...) The HTML-to-text converter already exists (lynx -dump), and it inserts footnote-like[1] references in the text, so there isn't a serious need for repeating URL's as plain text. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Matthew Miller: (...) The _actual_ tool (lynx) is! Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Wow, that's great! That's actually the perfect thing to do. Somehow I was led to believe someone was writing all the LUGNET tools themselves and that everything inside angle brackets would be invisible. So, let's see -- that means I can (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Nah. Don't worry about it. I'm taking the position that individual FAQ items written or edited by an individual might as well carry some of that individual's stylistic techniques -- "stylistic techniques" to me means things like writing style, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Actually, we were doing just that. We were ready to come out in the open with our stealth ASCII technology, but then the USAF needed some of it to bomb someone, and we couldn't talk about it for at least until the media stopped getting (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Hey, while you're at it, will you write one that makes people buy LEGO sets and send me just the 2 x 2 tiles? They can use an envelope or a box, I don't care. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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