"Thorsten" wrote:
> >A test, just in case I use it to post to p.international:

>
> As you know, p.international is not supported in the web view and never has
> been.

Ops... apparently I didn't... sorry about that.

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Hey, this is great news! I'm just about to be forced to use the 
library's computers for my internet access, and they don't allow 
newsreaders there.

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> The web news interface posting is now available for registered users of
> povray.org (see <http://www.povray.org/community/login/>) that have at least
> specified either a pseudonym or a public email address (which will appear in
> the "From:" line of the post).  Note that there will always be a slight
> delay between posting via the web interface and the post appearing on the
> news server.
> 
> Right now posting of attachments is not supported by design.  It may be made
> available later if the plain message posting does not cause any problems.
> Further, canceling messages is not yet supported via the web interface.  We
> plan to make that facility available in the future as our time permits.
> Another limitation is that the web view does not support cross-posting at
> this time.
> 
> As far as the supported character set is concerned, the form should only
> allow ISO-8859-1 characters in the text input fields but I do not know if
> all browsers really enforce this.  In any case, while ISO-8859-1 characters
> are supported, it is still strongly recommended to only use the common
> subset all people will be able to view - that implies ASCII characters -
> just like when using a regular news reader!
> 
>     Thorsten
> 
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Dear Admins:

Please add word wrap to the web posting system. It is annoying to have to
scroll horozontally just to read what I have written earlier while writing
a post, and I don't want to have to hit enter at the end of each line as it
stuffs up the word wrap in the final post.

Rohan _e_ii

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> The web news interface posting is now available for registered users

Thanks. Great feature. I really like the way things are builded and
implemented in pov-community. And I hope my questions and criticism is
usually creative :-)

And first feature request (yes, Ingo, I will never stop)
Can it be possible to define pov-sig within user account?

> As far as the supported character set is concerned

Coward ;-)

ABX

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In article <web.3d44dd303cdabc8d1dffde160@news.povray.org> , 
"Włodzimierz ABX Skiba" <abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote:

> Can it be possible to define pov-sig within user account?

Yes, if you have your user id cookie enabled (as you need cookies to view
the site anyway, this should be no big problem), you may enter it in the
"Personalise" section of the web view website and it will send you another
cookie with the signature (compressed to keep it small, of course).

    Thorsten

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In article <web.3d44a94b3cdabc8dd02c7b870@news.povray.org> , "Rohan Bernett"
<rox### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> Please add word wrap to the web posting system. It is annoying to have to
> scroll horozontally just to read what I have written earlier while writing
> a post, and I don't want to have to hit enter at the end of each line as it
> stuffs up the word wrap in the final post.

Some browsers may not support word warp in text input areas but browser
limitations are out of our control.  Sorry!

It will word warp the text for you before posting as you noticed, of course.

    Thorsten

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Włodzimierz ABX Skiba wrote: [...]

Is it my newsreader's fault that the second letter isn't displayed 
correctly?

ABX, what about using a normal "l" (even if it's pronounced differently)? 
Or just "ABX"? That would avoid many problems.

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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>}
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:50:17 +0200, Felix Wiemann <Fel### [at] gmxnet>
wrote:
> Włodzimierz ABX Skiba wrote: [...]
> Is it my newsreader's fault that the second letter isn't displayed 
> correctly?

This is displayed the same as it is holded in user account probably.

> ABX, what about using a normal "l" (even if it's pronounced differently)? 
> Or just "ABX"? That would avoid many problems.

That's probably only solution :-(

ABX

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The invisible MID should be made visible and put after "Post a reply to 
this message".

"Reply" is AFAIK for email, it should rather be "Followup".

The signature separator (right word?) "-- " isn't displayed.

The signature is quoted.

There should be a blank after the quoting-">" IMO.

There's always one more blank line at the end quoted.

The server converts a &#xxx; to a single character in plain-text messages.

Nevertheless: Great work!
-- 
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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In article <3d4534be@news.povray.org> , Felix Wiemann 
<Fel### [at] gmxnet>  wrote:

> The invisible MID should be made visible and put after "Post a reply to
> this message".

I will put it after the message in the future.  The message ID will remain
invisible however.

> "Reply" is AFAIK for email, it should rather be "Followup".

Like google does? Hmm...

> The signature separator (right word?) "-- " isn't displayed.

It never was.  And it isn't specified as a signature separator anywhere
either...

> The signature is quoted.

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

> There should be a blank after the quoting-">" IMO.

I will see how this can be improved.

> There's always one more blank line at the end quoted.

There is always one blank line in messages in the web view.  I will see how
this can be improved when quoting.

> 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.

> Nevertheless: Great work!

Thanks!

    Thorsten

PS: It may take a few weeks until those changes will be made. RL does not
permit me to make them earlier.

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