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Re: feature request html -> text conversion

Posted by GregChapman on Sep 07, 2012; 10:29am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/feature-request-html-text-conversion-tp6425065p7581257.html

A programmer colleagues at nPOPuk (I just work the documentation) has mailed these comments to me:
You might mention that the best rendering of a link in plain-text is

text of link (if different than the link itself) <link itself>
I responded that it normally does appear like that when someone inserts a link within the body of a post via the forum. The footer for plain text mail will not have different "text of link", so is fine as it stands.

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EDIT:
 I've just seen a message that looked like this:
This is just a test, folks. The attached file is absolutely worthless! So I
used a real small one.

http://npopuk-forum.986084.n3.nabble.com/file/n4022630/helloworld.txt
helloworld.txt
So it does seem that not all messages are rendered in the conventional way!
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Also, regarding the subscriber module, you referred to a message mentioning that the lines like

To start a new topic under Developers, email ml-node+s986084n2276484h64@n3.nabble.com

didn't appear... but your message just now conained such.
To which I responded, I still get a blank line where the "To start a new topic" line should appear.

I then made a suggestion that it was because I was the creator of the forum. Both of us are "Administrators" at the nPOPuk forum. However, I now realise that I have seen it when a creator of a forum on the n6 server. Checking further, it seems I don't get the line on any of the forums for which I am creator and are hosted on the n3 server, but I do get the line on an n3 forum where I am not an administrator. Hope that info helps you track down the bug.

He continued:
However, it should be noted that such a line would be better expressed as a mailto: URL.
That is a good point. I said, I'll point out that a good plain text mail program (like nPOPuk :-) )  makes such text clickable, as it does with a full URL. (Don't you just hate people who fail to enter the "http://" bit!)
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