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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Nov 1999.

                            
    
    
Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

                    

                        From Peter Punk <ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 7 Nov 1999 00:00                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
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!

>* assume that any non-white-space string starting with `www.' is a Web
>  address, and turn it into a link

Yep, really handy, also a feature in FA.

>* 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!

>* show :) or :-) as a smiley face graphic (which could be awful for some
>  ASCII art pictures).

Eeek!!!
-- 
        Peter Punk
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