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Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
Louise, Very cool. That also works in Thunderbird (and Eudora Classic). Seems to be fine. I also like the fact that your reply is plain text. Maybe I was wrong with that "has moved on to formatted
By Shal Farley · #1376 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
J, I was aware that I'm an outlier. ;-) For example, having my email client set so that my replies are plain text means that it gives me automatically a standard form of bottom quote for a text/plain
By Shal Farley · #1375 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
Just thought I'd point out that I have discovered a trick that helps if you use an iPhone, and I think iPad, when using the iOS mail apps in any case: Select the section you want to quote *before*
By Louise · #1374 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
I think 99% of the time that you're seeing selective quotations, it's when people are posting via the web, which makes the selective quotes very easy to do. I don't know if anybody trims emails much
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #1373 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
Brian, [voice=curmudgeon] Yeah, first they put wheel-y things on yer sled, then they put an engine on that. But no, can't be bothered to turn a simple crank so they put an e-lec-tric motor on the
By Shal Farley · #1372 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
Thank you Brian. Unfortunately you and I are from a species that is rapidly becoming extinct. From: Brian Vogel I'll add, probably much to Shal's dismay, that the trend toward "automating everything"
By Xaun Loc · #1371 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
Brian, I never took you for such a Luddite. ;) Are you also against calculators and automated spreadsheets? Seriously: Shal has made the (very obvious) point that it is increasingly difficult to trim
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #1370 ·
Re: forcing HTML email
Shal, yes, I was talking about top-posted replies. It was a semantics issue. By "quoted" I thought you meant "intentionally quoted," as in, within quotes. The prior messages accumulate below, but I
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #1369 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
What you may actually be seeing when a post may seem to have been trimmed by the poster, or when there is no historical context, is that either (a) the person has responded via email to a subsequent
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #1368 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
I'll add, probably much to Shal's dismay, that the trend toward "automating everything" just results in more and more and more having to be automated because users are never taught how to do simple
By Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> · #1367 ·
Re: forcing HTML email
J, Then I'm a bit confused. What did you mean by "non-trimmed". I thought we were talking about top-posted replies, where quoted matter from prior messages accumulates below. And is hopefully hidden
By Shal Farley · #1366 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
Thanks for the history lesson on a word, I think. In the groups that I participate in, there are some who edit their replies every time, some who edit only when the tail gets obnoxiously long, and the
By Scott Bonacker <lister@...> · #1365 ·
Re: Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
[note: I tried to change the subject of Xaun Loc's post while pending, but ran in to a bug. Apparently editing a plain text post while pending causes it to collapse into one wrapped paragraph.] Xaun
By Shal Farley · #1364 ·
Asking members to trim trailing quotes, versus automation
From: Shal Farley And the point of my reply was that expecting software to overcome the enormous variety of email formats and universally determine what is and isn't a quote is asking for a level of
By Xaun Loc · #1363 ·
Re: forcing HTML email
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 08:47 am, J_Catlady wrote: > > You don't mean that both parts are sent, though, correct? > In an HTML email, at least two parts are included in every email. There's the
Re: Splitting thread problem?
In addition to what Brian just explained about surgically extracting one or more posts from a thread and splitting them off, I think the key here is your word "after" - in "after the post." If you
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #1361 ·
Re: forcing HTML email
Interesting that that one worked. Not sure whether by quoting styles you're implying there were quotes in the messages causing problems, but there are no quotes in the messages that have been causing
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #1360 ·
Re: Splitting thread problem?
LeeAnne, ? ? ? ? ? ?You often have to do a couple of iterations of split followed by merge when you're trying to "hack a single post" out of a thread and integrate it in to another. ? ? ? ?
By Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> · #1359 ·
Re: forcing HTML email
Thanks so much Shal! ? -- -LeeAnne ECIR ( https://ecir.groups.io/g/main )?Archivist
By LeeAnne · #1358 ·
Splitting thread problem?
Hi all, So for the first time I tried splitting a thread. ?A member (Becky Ferry)replied to a calendar post ?and several messages were exchanged. ? I went to the first message after the post and
By LeeAnne · #1357 ·