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Hello:

I'm part of the Great Yahoo err Verizon Diaspora seeking a new home.

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?

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?


 

You may find groups.io to be acceptable. When replying from the web site it does not by default quote anything. I use 3rd party email programs so I can choose to quote or not. Phone email users may find it difficult to trim a message reply though.

Donald

On October 16, 2019 11:37:13 AM "y@es" <yahoo@...> wrote:

Hello:

I'm part of the Great Yahoo err Verizon Diaspora seeking a new home.

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?

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?




 

Hi

You might check out this page in the GMF wiki for an overview of setting up and preferences for your group -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation

Frances

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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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On 10/16/19 12:12 PM, Shal Farley wrote:
Sorry, that battle continues here in both versions:
...

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.
But alas not (I gather) from individual email messages.

Thank you for the data. I'm reading more on group.io