Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!orstcs!usenet!prism!jasmerb From: jasmerb@prism.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: news reader --- more Message-ID: <1990Dec10.190143.21735@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 90 19:01:43 GMT References: <1990Dec05.010349.17570@rfengr.com> <4305@oakhill.UUCP> Sender: @usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: jasmerb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Bryce Jasmer) Organization: Oregon State Univ. -- Computer Science Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu In article <4305@oakhill.UUCP> phred@oakhill.UUCP (Steve Menyhert) writes: > I have an idea with regard to the RTF newsreader. How about splitting >the newsgroup into straight text and an RTF newgroups. Normally, NeXT users >running the RTF newsreader will post to the RTF newgroup and have the newsreade >automatically strip out the RTF and cross post the message to the plaintext >group. This will create a lot more net traffic, but I never said it was a >perfect idea, it just solves the problem of excluding non-NeXT readers. I think we should just have one newsgroup that contains all RTF. But to do this would take a lot of work so that all people would be able to read the articles. Aren't there other computers out there that know how to read RTF? How many computers actually have implemented it (besides IBM/Microsoft of course?) We should put together a suite of programs that would be able to read RTF news. One for ASCII terminals (simply strip out the control stuff and display in plain text), a version for X11, a version for PCs, a version for Macintosh, etc. etc. Build into rn the ability to strip out RTF control codes (like ^x does a rot-13.) When all of this is done (say 1995 or 1996 :-) then ALL of the newsgroups could be in RTF. Do I really think this can happen? No, but it certainly is fun to think about. I get tired of 80 column monospaced text. Bryce Jasmer jasmerb@ohsu.edu