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Subject: 
Re: Which buildings open up?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Date: 
Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:26:12 GMT
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Mike Walsh wrote:
> 
> "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:394A6141.33FA@mindspring.com...
> > Mookie wrote:
> 
> [ ... snipped ... ]
> 
> > 
> > Top one works in both web view and news reader. Bottom one ONLY works in
> > web view. In my opinion, the SET tag was a bad idea for Todd to
> > implement, at least without converting it into a a proper HTML reference
> > for e-mail and news reading.
> 
> 
> I agree with Frank, I read with a news reader and find the <set:4554>
> notation rather annoying.
> 
> Have any statistics ever been gathered on the number of users who read
> through mail or news versus those who read via the web?  The majority of my
> reading is done offline which a news reader handles much better.
> 
> Mike
> 
> --
> 
> Mike Walsh - mike_walsh@mindspring.com
> 
> http://members.tripod.com/mike_walsh
> http://www.nclug.net
The solution is for the server to convert the <set:xxx> notation on the
fly when it serves out the news into a url.



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  Re: Which buildings open up?
 
"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:394A6141.33FA@m...ing.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I agree with Frank, I read with a news reader and find the <set:4554> notation rather annoying. Have any statistics ever been (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)

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