Earl Hood wrote:
>
> On July 20, 1998 at 14:27, jesse hirsh wrote:
>
> > i'm setting up an archive, and i'd like to have at the bottom of each
> > page, a form for people to respond to that particular message. this kind
> > of makes the mhonarc generated archive act like a web board or something,
> > but the bulk of the posts come from an email list.
> >
> > i'm placing the form in the <msgfoot> area.
> >
> > what i'd like to do is have the entire body of the message, requoted in
> > the textarea field in the bottom with the typical '>' tag at the start of
> > each line. am i making sense? is this possible?
> >
> > i can do this with the subject line, by using value="Re: $SUBJECTNA$"
> > but can't find one for the entire message body
>
> Because there is none. There is another recent discussion about
> the ability to place the message body data in more than one
> location.
>
> In your case, it is more problematic since you want to quote the data.
> Since the converted message data is in HTML, which can contain markup
> not appropriate inside a TEXTAREA element. Remember, MIME data is
> supported. The other thing is you want a modified version of the
> converted data: the adding of "> " before each line.
>
> What you want done is doable by changing the code. However, I am
> unsure on what the user interface component would be to allow specify
> the type of formatting you mention. On an individual basis, you can
> change the code to generate just what you need. Dealing with how it
> can be generalized into a standard feature can be addressed later.
I have just make a form to add a message, it can add a new thread or
folow one, it's a dirty shell hack but it works great. It's also working
in frames.
If you are interested I can send you the shells.
Saludos
RafaReta
