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Re: Plain Text Only & other questions

 

y@es,


One of the best features of Yahoo was blocking all HTML crapola giving
the list users legible, readable, text. Some searching here seems to
indicate that exists here in some form. What should I know about that?

There are two related options here:
Normalize HTML Emails - Strip all different fonts and colors from HTML emails.
Plain Text Only - Strip HTML out of messages.

The Normalize option generally gives good results for legibility while preserving the ability to include emphasis (bold, italic) in the text and illustrations inline in the body of the message.


A perennial issue is repliers taking no effort to trim their quoted
text. I once set up a small Mailman list that rejected any post already
containing the Mailman dot.sig; is that viable here?

Sorry, that battle continues here in both versions: convincing email users to trim their bottom-quotes and convincing web users to include enough relevant quote to know what they're talking about.

Groups.io has two mitigations for bottom quotes: they are stripped from Digest messages, and when viewing in the Messages section they are collapsed under a Show quoted text button.
Shal


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