On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:28 AM, ro-esp wrote:
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
Well, I think it's relatively clear that different folks have different ideas of what they want a digest to have, without even considering the technical difficulties in trimming or not.
In particular, if people want to use Groups.io as a forum, and always logon online to check on stuff, there generally won't be a problem (or for people who get single messages). For people who want to use email to interact (more common to our brethren now escaping from YG), there is a different story, and digests in particular.
Perhaps we should have an option on whether to trim digest messages or not? Subject to implementation issues. To put it simply, the whole point of a group/forum is to discuss, post messages back and forth. If you cut off the information we can't do that.
Those of us on the admin side of our groups should also have the responsibility to ding bad actors who, e.g., quote whole digests or texts that quote other texts ad nauseum. Sure it takes a moment to cut and paste what one is referring to, but the lazy way of not doing that can be quite annoying to the recipients, so that is on our heads.
Herb Gellis