Re: lynx-dev Re: internal links

[Larry W. Virden]

From: Webmaster Jim <address@hidden>

> On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 04:14:44PM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Sinan Kaan Yerli wrote:
> > >A million vote for external support of 'mail' and 'news' which will
> > >also make lynx LITE and tighter in security.
> > Another "me too".
> > Though I also argued that trn should remove html support (someone else
> > forwarded part of the discussion here), and that was shot down.
> 
> I disagree. I use the mail and news hooks in Lynx. Although Lynx can be
> abused, the benefits outweight the risks, IMHO.

The best way to set up lynx to suit everyone is to make it configurable.
Three options I can think of:

1. Current - using minimal, insecure, annoying, etc. mail and news.
2. External - this might not take much more than providing lynx.cfg entries
        for EXTERNAL invocation on mailto, news, and nntp entries.
3. Secure - in this mode, users attempting to access mailto or news/nntp
        get msg indicating that site has configured these values out of
        the application.
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