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Re: EGCS web pages


Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, David Mazieres wrote:

>> The mailing list archives currently include the literal text of
>> messages mailed in.  That means, in particular, that messages
>> containing '<' and '>' characters do not display right on web
>> browsers. 

OTOH, they allow you to save the web-page of an archived message
containing source code or a patch, then extract the source code or
patch from the saved file.  If `<' and other html meta-characters were
mangled, you'd have to manually replace them in order to get the
important data.

> Personally I fully agree.

So do I.  But it would definitely be essential to have a mechanism to
download the original message in text-only format.  Does MHonArc
support something like that?

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Alexandre Oliva
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