All posts in the topic Dealing with Excessive Quoting (Short link)
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- There are 3 posts — by 3 authors — in this topic.
- Latest post made by MJ Ray at 2007 Mar 06 00:52 UTC
> I've been noticing that some messages > end abruptly before they should and an ASCII box appears ...so some > text > is getting erased or cut off from certain messages. > > http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/messages/post.html?id=153712 > http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/messages/post.html?id=153691 > http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/messages/post.html?id=153650 Is it a "bug" or is it a "feature?" Its actually intended to be a feature, but we'd like your input. Those of you who use the web to read our forums. One of the problems with reading email listserves (mailing lists) on the web, is dealing with all the (sometimes VERY long) quotations that many people leave at the bottom of their email messages. Our software, Groupserver, tries to address this on the web site, by automatically HIDING text that looks like "quoting" at the bottom of a message. Its a really cool feature, but sometimes it makes mistakes. In the examples here, the software made mistakes in what it hid: http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/messages/post.html?id=153712 http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/messages/post.html?id=153691 http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/messages/post.html?id=153650 In the future, we hope to improve the ability of how the software recognizes what to hide and not to hide. In the meantime, its always possible to find the hidden text, behind the little arrow. Is this a problem for users? Is it something that users just need to get used to? Or is this something that needs to be fixed fairly soon? Does anyone have any ideas for clues that we might provide participants to recognize what is happening here? Thanks, Tim Erickson E-Democracy.Org
On 3/5/07, Tim Erickson <tim@e-democracy.org> wrote:
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> Is it a "bug" or is it a "feature?"
This is a feature on gmail "conversations".
I think it always works. But then google only employ doctors.
Tim Erickson <tim@e-democracy.org> wrote: > > http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/messages/post.html?id=153650 > > Is it a "bug" or is it a "feature?" > [...] In the meantime, its always > possible to find the hidden text, behind the little arrow. It looks like a bug in two ways: 1. Is it always possible to find the hidden text? I can't see how to show it in my non-JavaScript browser; 2. it looks like it fails more often for correctly-quoted (interspersed) messages. I suggest collapsing *each* quoted block after 4 lines. I think this should be fixed quite soon, as the Javascript-requirement is an accessibility bug. If you want to be really harsh, reject new messages with excessive quoting, like NNTP servers used to do. Hope that helps,