"dennis@home" :


"Mike Barnes" wrote in message news:LoqIkEE
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"dennis@home" :


"Adrian C" wrote in message news:9ulvvsFrmkU1@mid.
individual.net...

I've often thought that inside a company, that a local newsgroup
server would be of some use as a collaborative tool, rather than
group emails. I'd readily implement one without a moments thought.

We did have one.
However the idiots that put it in decided that as it was "usenet" it
should be plaintext based.
this is a bit stupid when HTML postings actually work far better with a
modern reader rather than the antiquated stuff real usenet insists on
because of its traditions.

I'm not so sure about that. I correspond with people who use HTML e-mail
and they find it hard to get to grips with the Usenet style of quoting.

In html each paragraph is tagged and the readers can identify the author.
Even OE could resize them to match its window size and colour them to
match the author.
A bit like quotefix does.

I can see the possibilities now that you mention them, but obviously not
with this plain text newsreader. Does any client software actually do
what you describe? Which product did you have in mind for your local
newsgroups?

It didn't stay plain text for long as it was somewhat difficult to
include diagrams and the such in plain text.

But surely you could have plain text with inline graphics, as in e-mail?

But by the time you have added tags and mime types, etc. is it really
plain text any more?

What I was meaning was, you don't need to go down the HTML route if you
want inline graphics. There are perfectly good standards for inline
graphics in plain text messages, and they've been working in this
newsreader for many a year. It's important not to be misled by the fact
that the authors of OE have never shown any interest in making it work
for their users.

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Mike Barnes