Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group A posting style request? Maybe trim off multiple copies of replies-to-replies?

circicirci,

There is a very simple solution to the problem.
A few key clicks and you can be receiving individual emails.
Then, no need to scan through reams of repetitive text to find the new content.

Sure, your count of number of emails will increase, nothing wrong with that.

R. Williams

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "circicirci" <acensor@fastmail.fm>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:37:27 -0000
Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group A posting style request? Maybe trim
off multiple copies of replies-to-replies?

> Hi All,
>
> Normally in email responses our email programs automaticially post
> full copies of what we're replying to below our replies. Useful
> indeed. Even if, or maybe BECAUSE to has the full record of replies to
> replies to replies all in one email for easy reference
>
> Our software does the same thing when we post here into the group
> email and the site archive. That has two downsides: The probably minor
> one is that Yahoogroups actually has a limit on how much old text
> they'll store in our archives, and having old text repeated in every
> subsequent reply brings closer the day when they'll delete the oldest
> posts. That limit is unknown, and for all I know it'll take 30 years
> for us to exceed it. So that's not my issue.
>
> The _other_ downside is for folks like me who get the posts from here
> in a daily digest in which all the day's posts are in one email.
>
> That means by the time three people have replied I get the original
> post, the reply with another copy of the original post, the reply-to-
> the-reply (which includes the original, the reply to the original, the
> reetc, etc, etc. In short, I end up with sometimes as many as 12
> copies of the original, multiple copies of replies-to-replies-to-replies.
>
> Makes for a very confusing to read digest and a very long one. ;-)
>
> The digest I opened this morning had 20 posts -- most with the replies-
> tto-replies-to-replies in them for an amazing total of over 14,000
> words in it -- most duplicates.
>
> REQUEST: If anyone would be willing to "trim off" all but maybe the
> one most recent post below their new reply that would make for more
> elegant easier to read digests.
>
> Even just putting some extra carriage-returns (blank lines) below the
> very bottom of a post before clicking "Send" (as I did below my
> signature) helps me see where one post REALLY ends.
>
> Think of it as "cockpit management" ;-) ?
>
> Just a thought/request. No replies (or <g> replies-to-replies-to-
> replies) needed. This will either make sense to you or not, and you'll
> either be willing and able to do the "trimming" or not.
>
> Alex
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