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(...) I'd like to see FTX special characters on message previews stripped. When viewing via the web interface, I see the special characters that create the formatted text. The brief message previews should be all plain text with those characters (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) My main concern is the extra time it takes to download messages containing in-line images rather than links to images. This is especially worrisome when using the Entire Thread on One Page or the This Message and its Replies on one Page (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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~^> This time the (URL) Right Way> · Eric Sophie Can you name these People? (URL) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.people, FTX)
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Hey! I made that! It's called the (URL) Zolqwith I like this new feature! A great day in Lugnet History! Thank you Todd· Eric Sophie (...) (URL) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Of course, it make perfect sense now. Its Definately Bed Time Now The novelty will wear off right? -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) ROFL! Hey, I could've left Henry's mugshot up there, but I thought I'd try something a bit smaller. Now just imagine the confusion I could have caused by linking to the help pages. ;) (...) -Dave (who's done experimenting for the day) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) LOL, no... +X is what you'd have to write if you wanted to cajole a count-up list + into counting downward. If you just want a count-up list, you can use + without the X number, like this: + foo + bar + zot which results in: foo bar zot --Todd (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Aw, hey, man, don't do that...you're gonna make someone's brain melt. --Todd (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I'm not a big fan of it either, but for the past 4-1/2 years, a proportional spaced font has been causing no end to headaches for people. The good news is that there are other fonts out there (for example Lucida Typewriter) that are easier to (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Maybe I am thinking of paypal where the first time you hit submit it takes you to the reveiw page to verify everthing then the submit button at the bottom actually lets you send your money. (...) Of course. I guess it is easier for people (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Uh, yeah! The uberposters would have to slow down to normal poster levels and wouldn't that be a drag. :) (...) I've got to congratulate you on the color subtleties as well. That's probably going to be the nicest feature as we continue to (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I am not a fan of the fixed-width text. It looks like what we used to do in high school to meet that 3 page requirment for english reports when we only had a tad more than 2 pages typed ;) But seriously, IMHO it is harder to read, and kinda (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Automatically preview? How? Like you mean, when you press the Post button without Previewing first, it automatically previews? ;-) I think possibly the Post button should maybe be removed or grayed out at first (before you click Preview) to (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Yeah. Narf. Didn't it used to automatically do that? (...) I figured that out but thanks for the heads up anyway. The more I think about it, the more I think when used in moderation the new FTX tools will be very useful. I guess my initial (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) (*cough* *cough* always preview *cough* *cough* :-) You wrote a paragraph of type "-" (count-down list). There's only one item in the list, so it got the number one. --Todd (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) LOL... I'm sure the novelty will wear off after a while. --Todd (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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Oops. didn't mean to double post. (...) Hey my name no longer has dash but a number 1 in front of it!? Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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Oh man ====== I think this might wind up being abused. It's funny, earlier today I was trying to find a picture link for the new "Built to Rule" transformer line on one of the Transformer news groups and I was thinking how glad I was that Lugnet was (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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Oh man ====== I think this might wind up being abused. It's funny, earlier today I was trying to find a picture link for the new "Built to Rule" transformer line on one of the Transformer news groups and I was thinking how glad I was that Lugnet was (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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I am very happy to announce three changes today to the LUGNET News web interface: Fixed-width font now used for plain-text messages. Once upon a time, when LUGNET first served up messages via the web, messages were displayed in a fixed-width font. (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX) !!
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