Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0
From Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen <REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com>
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· 8 Nov 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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Peter Punk <ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl> wrote in message news:eeI...@4ax.com... > On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 22:02:55 +1300, Matthew Thomas > <mpt...@student.canterbury.ac.nz> provoked the following text: > > >Well, discussions are taking place right this very minute to make the > >mail/news part of Mozilla 5.0 (from which Netscape Messenger 5.0 will be > >derived) do a similar thing. > > > >Specifically, when Messenger is *displaying* (not sending) messages, > >programmers are proposing to: > > > >* assume that any non-white-space string with a `@' symbol in it is an > > e-mail address, and turn it into a link > > Good idea, it's just as how Fort� Agent handles it, i can't do without! Yes it's good when it turned into a link , but i could be done to so many other things than a mail link .. it should be "done rigth"(TM) > >* show anything surrounded by *asterisks* or /slashes/ in bold and > > italic respectively (I've managed to convince them to leave the > > asterisks and slashes there, instead of hiding them) > > Good for you, i wouldn't want it either! I hate it when programs imagine that they are smarter than me , always "fixing" things for me ... having me fix them back. > >* show :) or :-) as a smiley face graphic (which could be awful for some > > ASCII art pictures). > > Eeek!!! I agree .. It would be the worst thing for email since HTML-mail (did netscape do that one too ?) I FUT'ed this to news:netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news where it belongs. (\ '(_\ ` ' `o_ ` ` |\`) | \) ,-+-. .------------------------------------------------------------------------------. /e=mc2\ ,- ( Now lets get back to ascii-art and leave the programming to the propellerheads ) ,' _____ `. '------------------------------------------------------------------------------' '=( . .)=' \ (_) )o( """ Kind Regards CeeJay
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,a634ddb4f5113d2a X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 10754a,41056175d9a916a0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10754a,public From: "Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen" <REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com> Subject: Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0 Date: 1999/11/08 Message-ID: <80583m$fac$3...@news.inet.tele.dk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 545728877 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <382...@student.canterbury.ac.nz> <eeI...@4ax.com> X-Priority: 3 Followup-To: netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Complaints-To: Department of Abuse <abu...@news.inet.tele.dk> X-Trace: news.inet.tele.dk 942023606 15692 195.249.202.145 (8 Nov 1999 01:13:26 GMT) Organization: http://CeeJay.findhere.com X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: "Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen" <REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Nov 1999 01:13:26 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
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