On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 05:27 PM, Herb Gellis wrote:
I just noticed this type of thing today. We're having a discussion about
something, and another poster responds to me partially by quoting my message,
but showing his suggested edits within the quoted part - and the quoted part
is completely missing from the digest. So, a digest person would have to logon
to the site to see the full message. This is really really bad! A discussion
back and forth should not be truncated.
yes, and that's why you sign your mails, UNDER the parts you want to send
I remember seeing something here about placing text under the quoted text so
all would be included (well, I seem to remember that), but enforcing that is
dicey.
No it is not, and it certainly wasn't in usenet (which I never used, but that aside).
The real problem is that certain commercial circles started to PRESCRIBE answering
ABOVE the quote , and to NOT trim quote at all.
One of the features of a good GUI is not to expect the user to remember
how to do things, it should just flow from the options on screen, etc. OK,
enough preaching ;-) So, does "at least for now" mean there might be some
consideration to making sure quoted text stays put in digests?
Consideration has nothing to do with it. TECHNICALLY the only two options there are are
automatically deleting everything under the last unindented line, and no autotrimming at all.
If it were up to me, the individual messages would be autotrimmed too
groetjes, Ronaldo
