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To: John Busby who wrote (1949)	11/9/2000 3:19:32 PM
From: Green Receipt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3372

John, Just approach it the simplest possible way. Support use of the full HTML standard and perhaps some XML ===-- Then over in the customization section every user can use, do the following: Allow the user to customize their view of SI by 'disallowing/allowing' each html tag that SI allows. You could even default all users to what we have now. Then no one would get upset if they didn't want to see the appropriate functionality. ------------- Lastly have the post be posted as it is (no filtering of tags) and when it comes time to retrieve the post, the filter would be applied according to the user's settings, when it generates the web page to be seen. --------- This method would essentially please everyone. It wouldn't be very hard to implement, and it would move the filtering code out of the posting side. U might just end up with much leaner code. And in terms of filtering if you did it write, the filter could simply be a data driven algorithm. Once you write the filter to read a data element as the filter element, you will never have to change a line of code again.

To: John Busby who wrote (1949)	11/11/2000 12:00:06 AM
From: Ojing Eo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3372

re colored fonts by users My vote: Allow passages in the body of messages to be colored by users. This will make it CLEAR (if used sensibly) what is that _users_ wish to EXPRESS. Don't allow colored backgrounds or colored titles to be set by users. Colored backgrounds would give us ugly unreadable messages (but it worked my machine!!!). Colored titles would give us a garish quest for attention. Ojing well, maybe you could allow three colors of titles: red for pessimists, bad news, black for generic and blue or green for good news.

To: John Busby who wrote (1949)	11/11/2000 7:51:03 AM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3372

Morning John. 1)message text- black only(exception the first line may be colored as it is now). I think we should leave the text black. That way, when you get the "search function" working correctly, we'll be able to see our "search results" in red- like it used to be!) 2)Original post- Sure, let 'em use color. How about font size too? Let us use font size 2 to 8? 3)Profile page- sky's the limit(since I have cable<g>) 4)subject titles- font colors and limited font size. NOTE I'm opposed to allowing images in a post. Perhaps an exception can be made for "coffee Shop" threads. You make the call there. I can go either way on it. P.S> About those new "public threads": No holds barred, IMO. Let them have free reign of what ever they want to do. So long as they stay off our boards. P.S>They will still be prohibited from our Coffee SHop, right? BTW, can you give me some feed back on this? Message 14748149 Thanks.