• [Flnews] Do you do post-processing?

    From Michael Uplawski@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 28 07:40:18 2023
    Good morning

    is anybody interested in post-processor scripts and -programs for the FLNews newsreader?

    I will not present my own program (yet again) but would be interested in
    seeing other solutions, if they are susceptible to be understood by myself ;)

    The reasons are manifold, just two of my motivations :

    *) My own program suffers from unforeseen difficulties. When I have resolved a problem, like:
    - signatures are preceding a list of references and footnotes instead of ending
    the post -
    I discover that an X-No-Archive header should have been applied, but is not.

    It “appears” that my code is much too complicated, but I would first like to see
    how anybody else is attacking similar requirements. It is probably about text-parsing and delegation of tasks among instances (architecture, if you prefer) or just about the organisation of a (frugal) script.

    *) My very personal opinion is that a program which leaves user-decisions to the user and FLNews in the way it motivates my own creativity, is oftentimes less prone to bugs and unexpected behavior than many of the alternatives that I have tried in the past. Changes are less often imposed than up to me.

    The mere possibility of a “post-processor” had triggered my interest in FLNews
    in the first place.

    Cheerio
    --
    Geh Kaffee kochen

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