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(...) The problem with that is that articles are stored in the news server in their raw original format only. When they're displayed by the web interface, and the FTX content is rendered into HTML for viewing on a web browser, it's done so (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: testing in rtl...
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(...) [...] (...) Mozilla does this too (the *bold* and _underline_ and /italics/ convention, and the smileys). But I don't use Mozilla on Lugnet. I agree that FTX should translate {} and [] to // and ** when displaying in plain text, and I'm *not* (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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(...) That might help, but I think it would be better to just replace the FTX code with the URL directly. (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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(...) That would work decently. You would want to insert those between paragraphs (as best as you could). Of course they could also become invisible to FTX users when a NNTP user quotes the message (as I have carefully done with this message). Frank (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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(...) What if lines beginning with "#" in FTX denoted comments, and the URLs of referenced resources were summarized in a comment block? In other words, if someone said [LEGOSet 6954_1] and [LDrawPart 3004:4] it would append something like this: # (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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