POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Web News Interface Posting Beta Test : Re: Web News Interface Posting Beta Test Server Time
6 Aug 2024 02:18:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Web News Interface Posting Beta Test  
From: Felix Wiemann
Date: 29 Jul 2002 09:48:43
Message: <3d4547ba@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> Felix Wiemann wrote:
> 
>> The signature separator (right word?) "-- " isn't displayed.
> 
> It never was.  And it isn't specified as a signature separator anywhere
> either...

IIRC it's specified in an RFC, but I can't find it right now.
It /is/ a signature separator, as you can easily see by using Google.

>> The signature is quoted.
> 
> The whole body of a message is quoted.

This is not the best behavior.

> A signature is part of the body and this it is quoted. How could the
> server guess what a signature is reliably?

By looking for "-- " as almost every newsreader does.

>> The server converts a &#xxx; to a single character in plain-text
>> messages.
> 
> HTML is not supported in posts.  Only plain text message texts are.

So what? It shouldn't convert &#xxx; but it currently does.

-- 
light_source{0#macro L(K,H,W)sphere{H.5}sphere{K.5}sphere{W.5}cylinder{
H,K.5}cylinder{H,W.5}#end 3}union{L(0v*-2<2,-2>)L(y*-3z-v*5z*3-y)L(-y*3
0u*3)L(y*-3v*-5-z,z*-3-y)rotate-v*clock pigment{rgb.5}translate<0,2,9>}
// +KFF200 +KF720 +W120 +H90 -F -A -GA -P


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