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Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 28 May 2003 05:22:00 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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In lugnet.publish, Todd Lehman wrote:
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In lugnet.publish, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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Hey my name no longer has dash but a number 1 in front of it!?
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(*cough* *cough* always preview *cough* *cough* :-)
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Yeah. Narf. Didn’t it used to automatically do that?
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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 cut down on cowboy-posting. :-) But
it probably ought to be a per-user setting, because I can already hear people
complaining about it slowing them down. :-)
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I figured that out but thanks for the heads up anyway.
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Perhaps it might be wise for me to remove the “-” (count-down list) paragraph
type altogether. It was only in there for symmetry with “+” (count-up list).
Who really uses that anyway?
Since the count-up list can take an optional index number, a count-down list
could still be written manually as:
+3 foo
+2 bar
+1 zot
which results in:
- foo
- bar
- zot
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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 fear was that Lugnet would devolve into a 90
percent useless flotsam evironment, like the afore mentioned Transformers
newsgroup. I guess that fear is kind of silly given the watchful eye kept
over Lugent by its diligent creators. :-)
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Ya, there’s not really much crazy stuff you can do with it -- you can’t do
blinking and color changes and big ugly background patches. Mainly it’s for
simple typography (italics, boldface, computer words) and pictures and things.
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P.S. The color change for previous posts is absolutely brilliant.
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Thanks.
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
| | | Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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