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Re: Digest showing only titles or full text

 

Hi Duane?

What would be the advantage of having only Daily Digest available?
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-LeeAnne

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Re: Digest showing only titles or full text

 

No, the Daily Summary is just a summary. To get the full text, you'd select either of the Digest options, Full Featured or Plain. Some groups are set up so that only Full Featured Digest is available.

Duane
Re: Digest showing only titles or full text

 

Does the summary include the text? The subscriber wants to be able to read the messages in the digest without clicking through to the website. Yahoo included the whole text.

Sharon

On Apr 25, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Duane <txpigeon@...> wrote:

There was a new delivery option added not too long ago. It's named Daily Summary and could be used instead of either version of the Digest. Will that do what you want?

Duane
Re: Digest showing only titles or full text

 

There was a new delivery option added not too long ago. It's named Daily Summary and could be used instead of either version of the Digest. Will that do what you want?

Duane
Digest showing only titles or full text

 

Is there a way to set the digest to show only message titles or full text?
Re: Plain text behaving oddly

 

Frances,

The word "formatting" was in a large bolded font. His signature was
large and red!
I think your member is confused about formatting.

If that word was large and bold then only the member could have done that (I think, not sure if a moderator could change the format by editing in pending). So at least from what I read he WAS NOT posting in plain text.

Some factors I can think of that may apply:

1) How did the member post? Via the group's New Topic or Reply buttons? Via a webmail service? Via a mobile device app? Via an email client on a PC?

2) Has the member set a Signature in his Subscription page? Is it set to HTML? Has he checked the box corresponding to how he posts (1)?

It is probable that having set an HTML signature in the Subscription page, a message the member sent as plain text would be converted to HTML in order to add the signature. But that still doesn't explain how a word in the non-signature portion of his message became specifically formatted. That would seem to give the lie to the member's claim of posting in plain text.

This message, like nearly all of mine, is being posted from an email client in plain text format. I don't have any signature set in my Subscription, nor does GMF force HTML, so I anticipate no shenanigans.

Shal
Re: Plain text behaving oddly

J_Catlady
 

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 08:29 am, Frances wrote:
One group member says that he posts in plain text but when he sees his posts in his email, it is not plain text.?

I thought that was just a Premium feature. ;)

J?
Plain text behaving oddly

 

Hi

Has anyone seen a complaint that Groups.io is sending fancy formatting in signatures? One group member says that he posts in plain text but when he sees his posts in his email, it is not plain text.?

His email to the group: - my italics.

"Groups.io sure has some funny ideas about formatting¡­¡­¡­. My original message was in plain text."

The word "formatting" was in a large bolded font. His signature was large and red!

Our group is set not to force plain text to HTML. This member is a sophisticated user of technology.

Anyone else seeing a problem?

Frances
Re: Moving an entire thread from main group to subgroup or vice versa

Brian Vogel
 

Thanks Gentlemen!!

Definitely something worth considering. ?When main group and subgroup(s) are used in an effective hierarchy there can always be times when someone starts a topic in one that might be more appropriate for another.
Re: Moving an entire thread from main group to subgroup or vice versa

 
Edited

Brian,

No, but it has been discussed on beta@
/g/beta/message/10820

Hasn't made it to the Trello wishlist as far as I can see.

Shal
(Second hit in a Search for "move message subgroup")
Re: Moving an entire thread from main group to subgroup or vice versa

 

In a word, no. As far as messages, files, etc. are concerned, a subgroup is totally separate from the main group.

Duane
Moving an entire thread from main group to subgroup or vice versa

Brian Vogel
 

Can this be done and, if so, how?
Re: Why use hashtags in a group? #hashtags

J_Catlady
 

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:53 am, Shal Farley wrote:
Rectangles with slightly rounded corners.

?I still have no idea what you're talking about!

J
Re: Why use hashtags in a group? #hashtags

J_Catlady
 

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:57 am, Shal Farley wrote:
Both are used to index information, so I can sort of see that.

I'd just been assuming that hashtags act like keys in a database, defined and then used to speed up search. But now that I've been looking, I can't find any reference to that, either.

J?
Re: Why use hashtags in a group? #hashtags

 

J,

Shal, didn't the use come about via hash functions, used to speed
searches in a DBMS?
I don't think Wikipedia mentioned that, nor have I heard that explanation.

I was amused that Wikipedia cited PDP-11 assembly language for use of # as the Immediate specifier on instruction operands. They cited it as an example of using number sign as a marker to alter the meaning of what follows, they didn't relate it specifically to the social media usage.

... I remember hash functions and just assumed that when hashtags
came into their own in social media, they were related to them.
Both are used to index information, so I can sort of see that.

But I think the word "hash" had been associated with the number sign independently, and became a convenient name for the usage. It rolls off the tongue more readily than #number-sign-tag, or #octothorptag. Maybe #poundtag would have worked (too overloaded with meaning?).


Shal
Re: Why use hashtags in a group? #hashtags

 

J,

Shal, I don't remember about the button shape.
Plenty of examples in beta@, or this thread in GMF. Rectangles with slightly rounded corners. The text is white on tag-color background.

I think ... it took whatever was after the pound sign in the title
and pushed it to the end, making the title unreadable.
That's what I'm seeing too. Moving one word out to the end does mangle the Subject a bit, how unreadable it becomes would depend on the specific Subject line.

Shal
Re: Why use hashtags in a group? #hashtags

J_Catlady
 

Shal, didn't the use come about via hash functions, used to speed searches in a DBMS? It's been a long time (and I, too, am no spring chicken), but I remember hash functions and just assumed that when hashtags came into their own in social media, they were related to them.?

J
Re: Why use hashtags in a group? #hashtags

J_Catlady
 

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:16 am, Shal Farley wrote:
the hashtag will be pulled out to the end and made into a button shape

Shal, I don't remember about the button shape. I just remember that awhile back, I was trying to use the pound sign in a message title, and the title got totally mangled. I remember at first reporting it to Mark as a bug, until I realized it was being treated as a hashtag. I think (I don't remember precisely but could test this again) it took whatever was after the pound sign in the title and pushed it to the end, making the title unreadable. I don't remember the button shape, but now I'm intrigued. :)

J?
Re: Why use hashtags in a group? #hashtags

 

Jim,

I'm 72...hashtags have not been a part of my life...and yet I
see them around.
I guess that they are here to stay.
This use for the number sign is a creature of social media. Wikipedia cites Twitter as the place where this usage first flourished.


In Groups.io hashtags are only detected in the message Subject, not the message body. I think that's a reasonable accommodation to the different nature of an email message versus a "tweet" or other social media message.

Shal
Re: Why use hashtags in a group? #hashtags

 

J,

I don't think that works. Groups.io will still create a hashtag out
of any pound sign and in doing so, I believe will mangle the thread
title.
Oh, right.

As seen in Full Featured Digests and the Messages section the hashtag will be pulled out to the end and made into a button shape. I forgot about that. In individual email it just passes through unmangled.

My email-centrism trips me up again.

Shal
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