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(...) Done! --Todd (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Because that's where replies belong in threaded discussions? --Todd (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Mmm, any idea why sometimes my replies are pushed to the bottom when I want them at the top? Still, a (URL) idea. -JHK (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) You mean in the web posting interface? Plain text already is the default. Or at least the default default. The default reply type for a plain text message is plain text, and the default reply type for an FTX message is FTX. But the default (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) btw, could we have a way to change the default post type to plain text, instead of it defaulting to FTX? (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Hey, that looks like a pretty neat program. If I ever go back to the DOS world, I'll definitely install that on OE. (...) I'm curious what Quotefix shows you for each of the following lines...could you tell me what it shows? My *all-time* (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Sorry about that. I think I can fix this tonight. (...) It's because of the "text/x-ftx" part of that header, yes. Although, I believe that the RFCs say that a client is supposed to assume plain text if it sees a type of "text" and a subtype (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Unless someone go totally nuts with crazy table stuff, it should look just fine. (...) Yup! FTX was designed from day one (back in the summer of 1999) to be entirely readable as plain text. In fact, here is an example of an article I posted in (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I think we're going to lighten them a little bit. And when we get CSS going later down the road, you'll be able to assign your own colors (if you want to). (...) Well, you can still do that of course in plain-text posts. Or in FTX you could (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Guess I'm not up on the difference between Brief and Compact. Thanks :-) -Tim (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) It didn't appear for me in the preview, and I didn't go back to check it afterwords until now. Now it's working. -Tim (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) He means in the Brief abstract article displays, as opposed to Compact mode. In particular, the brief for the message he referenced has the curly braces and square brackets which FTX would recognize. Tim is suggesting they should be not appear (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) That would be fine as long as it's setting that persists across sessions. Zero should be a valid choice! Hopefully the links for the images that get filtered would be clickable to view the image. (Not sure what you would do if the image was (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Interestingly enough my Outlook Express with the AddOn OE-Quotefix by Dominik Jain ((URL) showed your *shout* in boldface. Also _underline_ gets underlined for real. Unfortunately the Quotefix conventions for /italics/ and *boldface* don't (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I dunno about him, but when I first looked at his post, there was a blank space where the article now appears. Looking now, I see the article. slow load, maybe? James (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I am also very happy, except for.... (...) this. At least on my computer, the rainbow of colors are all just a bit too light/faint. It is very difficult to read some of the text. I would like to blame it on my own moniter, but everything else (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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Todd, I enounter an anomaly in Outlook Express (6.00.26) with FTX-formatted posts, as OE seems to think every such post has an attachment (showing the paper clip symbol in the thread view). This is not a serious problem, but a bit irritating, as (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) This is terrible news! How is this going to be rendered on a text-based newsreader? Not everyone is using a GUI for NNTP you know! --Bill. XFUT: lugnet.admin.nntp (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.publish)
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(...) d'Oh! (...) Yes. (...) d'Oh! (...) Sorry about that! I think I can fix that. (...) My apologies -- I didn't realize that newsreaders would have a problem with the content-type tag. I'll figure out some different headers that will make it work (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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