| Grex > Helpers > #76: Grex System Announcements Item |  |
| response 137 of 156: | 
Mar 10 14:49 UTC 1999 |
Unless Grex has plans to ban all non-HTML access, web pages should be the only place it is allowed. While it is possible to read past the rubbish when using telnet, I don't usually waste my time on it. HTML popping up is a fairly swift way to chase me off a system.
| 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 139 of 156: |
Mar 11 16:06 UTC 1999 |
I don't know how anyone "bans" a blink tag... Meanwhile, please note that many animated .gif files regularly crash various versions of Netscape, especially if used in combination with Javascript.
| 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 141 of 156: |
Mar 11 21:03 UTC 1999 |
Yup. Javascript in responses is also not going to work if the response is submitted through Backtalk.
| 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 143 of 156: |
Mar 12 11:53 UTC 1999 |
Jan's version (heck, maybe I should let Jan answer questions about his own software ;) ) will be putting the HTML in a different place than the Picospan text.
| 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 145 of 156: |
Mar 13 11:49 UTC 1999 |
I would guess the same thing that happens now... Backtalk doesn't actually *do* anything, so you see the tags as is.
| 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 147 of 156: |
Mar 14 00:02 UTC 1999 |
Thanks for all your work, Mark!
| response 148 of 156: |
Mar 14 13:03 UTC 1999 |
(Mary stands and applauds Mark.)
| response 149 of 156: |
Mar 14 22:34 UTC 1999 |
<<danr thanks aruba>>
| response 150 of 156: |
Mar 15 20:34 UTC 1999 |
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| response 151 of 156: |
Mar 15 21:05 UTC 1999 |
if you open a tag that needs closing, backtalk will close it in your response so that it does not pollute following reponses. thanks Mark! Backtalk (even the old version) does seem to have a bug in the clickifying logic as reported in resp:136. That's my department. I'll be working on a fix for it.
| 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
| response 153 of 156: |
Mar 17 11:45 UTC 1999 |
The next Grex Board of Directors meeting is at 6:30 pm, Tuesday March 23, at Zingerman's Next Door, 422 Detroit Street, Ann Arbor. The public is invited. See Item 85 in the Coop conference (item:coop,85) for the agenda.
| response 154 of 156: |
Mar 17 20:39 UTC 1999 |
Wow, all the modems were busy for at least a few minutes this afternoon.
| response 155 of 156: |
Mar 17 21:56 UTC 1999 |
I got a busy signal last night.. It's ironic (for those of us who Grexed or M-Netted before the internet connections) that getting a busy signal is news, but things are certainly different now than they once were..
| response 156 of 156: |
Mar 18 03:56 UTC 1999 |
<nods in approval...yay internet connection - yay staff!>