From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T23:24:34+09:00
Subject: Re: To all people writing BBS on Rails: let's join forces

Andreas Schwarz wrote:

> gabriele renzi wrote:
>> Andreas Schwarz ha scritto:
>>> What I (and most of the users) do NOT want is:
>>> * BB-Code or HTML
>> I agree on avoiding bbcode, user icons and smlies.. but a simple 
>> markup system is imho useful. Maybe textile :)
> This might be is difficult to combine with usenet style quoting, and I 
> actually never had a feature request for this. I am already creating 
> links from URLs and doing some basic formatting for _this_, /this/ and 
> *this*, that seems to be sufficient.

What about using Markdown via BlueCloth? It looks a lot like what is 
used on newsgroups anyway:

http://bluecloth.rubyforge.org/

Regards,
Florian Gross