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Re: testing in rtl...
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Wed, 28 May 2003 17:23:52 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Eaton wrote:
> > I assume, though, that Todd will write something up to filter them out
> > for those who actually have to read Lugnet via SMTP or NNTP, since otherwise
> > messages will quickly start looking ugly :(
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> What's ugly about it? It degenerates just fine to plain text.
Does it? From the sounds of things it seemed like people who read posts via NNTP
or SMTP were just seeing the raw FTX codes rather than the real text-- is that
only in some readers? IE is there something out there that recognizes that
[foobar]
should change to
foobar
when viewed in plain text? (and ditto curly braces, underscores, backslashed
characters, etc)
DaveE
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| (...) I mean that sentences are still perfectly readable. (...) Right -- it's just an extension to plain text. (...) Not any more than a newsreader should recognize that: hello I'm going to *shout* now should change to: hello I'm going to shout now (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) It's a Content-Type header. The content type is set to 'x-ftx'...although this is causing some trouble for people so it'll probably change to 'text/plain' and a different header would be used. (...) If your newsreader or e-mail editor allows (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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