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Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Wed, 28 May 2003 15:20:35 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Brian H. Nielsen wrote:
   In lugnet.announce, Todd Lehman wrote:
   I am very happy to announce three changes today to the LUGNET News web interface:

  
  • FTX content in messages. A picture is worth a thousand words. You can now post and view FTX messages through the web interface. This means you can do a lot of neat new things in your messages.



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 features.

If there is a link to an image I have the choice of whether or not to spend the time and bandwidth to view it. People on high-speed connections probably don’t care one way or the other, but many of us are on dial-up connections. I at least have a 56K connection, but many areas can’t even get that level of service.

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 stripped out.

I wonder if it is visible here:

  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)

Hmmm....linking to posts within posts doesn’t seem to work.

Another issue is the Formats Help Page which only links to the FTX QuickStart and not the FTX Guide. People who don’t know about the guide won’t be able to access it and all of the useful information it contains when they’re posting to the web.

-Tim



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Previews? Like when you're posting? That preview? Or do you mean the brief abstract article displays? (...) Mmmm, good idea. (...) What didn't work? I see the article you linked to. Did it not show up in when you previewed prior to posting? (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Done! --Todd (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)

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  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)

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