On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 14:47:00 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:55:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
And none of the features that you're talking about really make
sense when you're dealing with NNTP or a mailing list. It's
all just plain text.
Well, nntp actually supports basically all that stuff: you can
do multipart/alternative for rich text and mime attachments for
inline images, all kinds of stuff. I think it might even allow
editing in the protocol, though propagating that to email users
might be bizarre (still doable though).
So it isn't *actually* a technical limitation... though a lot
of us might never use those features because we do interface
with it as a plain text thing.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure editing is in there because Pan[1] provided
the option when I used it.
Actually Pan is a really great way to read the D news groups, but
as I started to access the forums from many different places it
was just easier to let the web track messages I'd read. (Pan even
supports some markdown (bold and such)).
1. http://pan.rebelbase.com/
