[Mailman-Developers] GSOC - Archives UI for mailman: Use cases

Dushyant Bansal cs5070214 at cse.iitd.ac.in
Fri Apr 15 17:51:33 CEST 2011


On Friday 15 April 2011 08:20 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2011-04-12 12:29 PM, Dushyant Bansal wrote:
>> Handling Top/Bottom Posting
>> /By default, the quoted text can either be all hidden or all displayed.
>> It might also be good to only hide the quoted text when it is at the end
>> of the message, as when it is in the middle, the user is likely to want
>> to see it for context.
>> /
>> ->On mailing lists, people generally use 'inline posting' to reply. One
>> level of inline posting is helpful to see the context, but if it goes
>> beyond one level then, it might be a good idea to hide the old quoted text.
> As long as it is togglable, this is a great idea...
Right, it should be togglable.
> I've been using the QuoteCollapse extension in Thunderbird for a long
> time and it works great... doesn't handle all use cases (like broken
> MUA's that don't use proper quote characters), but for the most part
> works very well...
I just installed the extension. Looks great!

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Dushyant



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