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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Eaton wrote:
> > What's ugly about it? It degenerates just fine to plain text.
>
> Does it?
I mean that sentences are still perfectly readable.
> 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--
Right -- it's just an extension to plain 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?
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
when viewed in plain text.
> (and ditto curly braces, underscores, backslashed characters, etc)
The backslashed characters might get annoying if they're not converted, yeah.
--Todd
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