response 128 of 156:

Mar 2 22:18 UTC 1999

I agree.  No blinking.

response 130 of 156:

Mar 3 20:43 UTC 1999

When the new Backtalk goes live, it will have a feature in it that
allows fairwitnesses to disable HTML posting in their conference if they
so please.  There are definately some conferences where HTML posting
would be very nice - web, auction, enigma and test come to mind.

The BLINK tag has been on our banned list since day zero.

However, animated GIFs are still possible.

response 132 of 156:

Mar 3 23:37 UTC 1999

There's already a test conference, which could be used for trying out HTML
and whatnot.

response 134 of 156:

Mar 4 22:14 UTC 1999

Re HTML responses in Backtalk: I agree with STeve in resp:120 that this
should have its own discussion item. HTML conferencing would represent a
major change to the user interface, and like other major changes to Grex
- the internet connection, outgoing internet access policy, anonymous
web reading, etc. - there should be user discussion and input prior to 
making a decision on installing it. Coop would be the appropriate
conference.

I will say that I tried out the 'backtalk' conference using the new
version of backtalk, and it really does do HTML.

response 136 of 156:

Mar 6 20:58 UTC 1999

Re resp:123 - I notice that Backtalk doesn't process the first URL
correctly. It should treat the ">" as a terminator, but doesn't.

Jan has entered an item in Coop to discuss HTML in Backtalk postings.
It's item 82 (item:coop,82).

response 138 of 156:

Mar 10 17:29 UTC 1999

Backtalk produces a plain-text version of each HTML response entered. 
Picospan will always show you the plain-text version, so normally there 
shouldn't be rubbish to read past.

I think there are some issues regarding HTML posting that warrant 
discussion. As noted earlier, the discussion is happening in Item 82 of 
the Coop conference (item:coop,82).

response 140 of 156:

Mar 11 19:36 UTC 1999

Backtalk apparently (according to Jan) will be doing things like making sure
tags are closed, etc.  Certainly if the HTML is submitted thru the Backtalk
interface it is possible to remove any blink tags before putting the stuff
into the file.

response 142 of 156:

Mar 12 02:11 UTC 1999

what will happen if lazily tagged html is entered through picospan?  will
backtalk fix that in showing it, even though it won't be able to edit the text
for picospan readers to clean it up?

response 144 of 156:

Mar 13 06:23 UTC 1999

i mean if somone is running picospan and enters an html response, say, without
proper close tags...

response 146 of 156:

Mar 13 21:25 UTC 1999

I'd like to announce that I have closed the last auction item with bids on it,
so the auction is over unless someone bids on something which has thusfar been
overlooked.

Thanks to everyone who donated things to the auction:

arthurp, aruba, atticus, beccap, beeswing, bhaalu, cmcgee, coyote, danr,
headdoc, hematite, janc, jep, jh, jiffer, keesan, mary, mary's sister Pat,
misha, mta, omni, aruba's roommate Paul, remmers, Carol's brother Rick,
srw's co-worker Rick, tpryan, valerie, wolfg676, and zook.

And thanks to everyone who bought something (and paid for it :)):

andyb, aruba, atticus, beeswing, bkwdbuny, brighn, bruin, cmcgee, coyote,
dea, desolato, devnull, fungster, gypsi, happyboy, janc, jep, jiffer,
jshafer, kami, katie, kentn, krj, misha, mooncat, mta, n8nxf, n8rxs, omni,
orinoco, otaking, otter, phenix, roadtrip, robh, rosie0, rtg, scott, snow,
toking, tpryan, and valerie.

Here are the current totals:

Status                    Count    Total
------                    -----    -----
Open items                   11
Closed but unpaid items      39   479.00
Paid but undelivered items   28   336.01
Delivered items             171  1033.75
                            ---  -------
                            249  1848.76

Thanks everyone!

response 148 of 156:

Mar 14 13:03 UTC 1999

(Mary stands and applauds Mark.)

response 152 of 156:

Mar 15 21:05 UTC 1999

I updated the telnet page on our website - it was vadly in need of this.
see http://www.cyberspace.org/info/telnet.html