Improving style of error pages of this website

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 13:10:45 UTC, nbro wrote:
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> 2. Forums, like this one, could definitely be improved by 
> adding markdown as a markup language to edit and style posts. 
> There should also be the possibility to edit already posted 
> questions and answers, and the edit as well as the original 
> answer or question should be somehow visible and recoverable, 
> similar to SO.

Currently, the forum is simply a web interface to the D newsgroup 
server. It is not not a stand alone forum. There is also a 
mailing list interface to the newsgroups. Implementing editing, 
markdown, or anything specific to the forums is a bit problematic 
because of how it would be reflected in the newsgroups and the 
mailing list. That said, I've got a post coming to the blog 
tomorrow that will talk about future plans for the forums.
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> 4. These forums require us to provide an e-mail, even if it's 
> invalid. I don't understand why. We could just do that only 
> registered users can post and that the e-mail address is 
> visible only if the registered user wants to show it.

Vladimir can answer authoritatively, but I believe this is 
because of RFC 850, which requires an email in USENET message 
headers.