Re: lynx-dev GNKSA review of Lynx 2.8

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> > review that Lynx is not meant as a full newsreader, but I still think it  
> > deserves evaluation. For example the posting mechanism  
> > definately should either be improved or left out, as it very strongly  
> > encourages "bad posting". 
>  
> I am probably one of the few Lynx users whose primary news reader/poster 
> is also Lynx.  As such a user, I would sincerely like to know how Lynx 
> ``encourages "bad posting".'' 
like most other "official" things on the net, GNKSA is a group of
vigilantes whose intentions are pure (but they don't build up the
infrastructure).  To the extent that people work on the newsreader
code, it's a useful guideline, but there's lots of things that are
more relevant to Lynx's function (web reader) that demand more
attention.

> As a side note, Lynx handles Japanese news groups beautifully, which is 
> more than can be said for some other news programs around. 
>  
> __Henry 


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