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Standardise links at bottom of Daily Summary and Full Digest Emails
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Hi,
I think it would be helpful to have the Home, Subscription, Messages and New Topic links shown at the bottom of the Daily Summary email also shown at the bottom of a Full Digest to provide a consistent style and quick access to key web pages. If that's done, I would then question retaining the New Topic link at the bottom of each message in a Digest as the others primarily relate to the message above (except Top ^). Andy
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New topic Send and Discard buttons not working after using New Topic link in Daily Summary
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Hi Mark,
a Daily Summary contains Home, Subscription, Messages and New Topic links at the bottom. After using the New Topic link a new topic window is shown but the Send and Discard buttons don't work properly. The Discard button does nothing and the Send button just takes you back to the messages view. Regards, Andy
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
Yes! Was definitely riffing on him. You got it! 😻
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 2:31 PM Glenn Glazer <glenn.glazer@...> wrote:
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
Glenn Glazer
On 5/24/2020 14:13, J_Catlady wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:26 AM, Glenn Glazer wrote: Are you riffing T.S. Eliot's The Naming of Cats? If so, I approve. Best, Glenn --
PG&E Delenda Est
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:26 AM, Glenn Glazer wrote:
I think divining intent from semantics is a perilous business, in particular when there are multiple plausible intents.Divining intent is a perilous matter When multiple plausible meanings exist. Some people may just mean to clean up their chatter But just by pure chance they make others quite pissed. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
Glenn Glazer
I think divining intent from semantics is a perilous business, in
particular when there are multiple plausible intents.
Some people may intend to start a new thread by changing the subject line. Some people may intend to just clean up automated reply/forward annotations. Some people may intend to acknowledge that the subject of the conversation has mutated while preserving the chain to the earlier subject (the thread has forked). Some people may intend to just add or remove a hashtag. None of those are more right or more wrong than the others, just different use cases. Asserting that only one of them is what all writers have in mind strikes me as not very universal. Best, Glenn --
PG&E Delenda Est
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
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Dave Wade
Folks, If you change the subject line you probably intend to start a new thread. The problem is when you mail client changes the subject. In the past, but perhaps not on ”groups.io” I have seen mails that have acquired a while string of “RE: AW: RE: AW:” as mails ping pong between a user with a German language and an English language client. Dave
From: main@beta.groups.io <main@beta.groups.io> On Behalf Of Malcolm Austen
Sent: 23 May 2020 17:31 To: main@beta.groups.io Calendar <main@beta.groups.io> Subject: Re: [beta] Rejecting messages without a subject line #suggestion
Malcolm Austen:
I argue the converse. If you want to start a new topic, you should compose a new message. It should be permissible to correct a typo in the subject line without starting a new topic.
Malcolm.
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
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Malcolm Austen
Malcolm Austen: Indeed. I thought the question was asked as to how messages can be threaded correctly if they have no subject line. I attempted to answer that in such a case they can be threaded correctly by means of the threading headers. Malcolm.
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
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This has been hashed and rehashed an rerehashed in the past and the decision was made to thread topics based on subject line as well, because sometimes they were not threading correctly otherwise. I think that was the right decision and it should stay as is. This is going off on a tangent .
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On May 23, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Malcolm Austen <malcolm.austen@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
Malcolm Austen
Malcolm Austen: I argue the converse. If you want to start a new topic, you should compose a new message. It should be permissible to correct a typo in the subject line without starting a new topic. Malcolm.
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
ro-esp
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 05:05 PM, Malcolm Austen wrote:
Emails are (or should be) threaded on the basis of the threading headers,I disagree. If you change the subjectline, it's your intention to create a new thread. Also, I don't want to copy one of the worst parts of googlegroups: if you send a reply to a digest about subject A, and then send a reply to the same digest about subject B, the second message is threaded as subject A, and sent with the subjectline A .. groetjes/ĝis, Ronaldo
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 08:39 AM, Thomas Gruber wrote:
That‘s not a groups.io thing really,My point was not that it's a groups.io thing. My point was that there may have been no relationship established yet, so it doesn't seem appropriate to me to slap them on the wrist ("please don't send emails without subjects") for not including a subject, or worse yet, bounce their email. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 08:39 AM, Thomas Gruber wrote:
Or if you want to be really generous, a warning reply - like „please don‘t send emails without subject“I think even that is too much if a relationship has not yet been established. People DO send blank emails to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. It's not standard practice or in any way required that all emails have subject lines. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
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Malcolm Austen
Malcolm Austen: Yes Bruce, there are extra possibilities. The point I intended to make was that even if there is no subject line, messages can be correctly threaded by means of the email headers. Malcolm.
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Re: Site updates
#changelog
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 11:32 PM Andy Wedge <andy_wedge@...> wrote:
This has been fixed. Cheers, Mark
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
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On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:05 AM, Malcolm Austen wrote:
Emails are (or should be) threaded on the basis of the threading headers...Not always. See https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/6321 Bruce
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
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Hi,
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If they can send emails then they should be able to enter a subject. That‘s not a groups.io thing really, that‘s just good behavior in email traffic. I think a rejection is appropriate. And if I was a group owner I also wouldn’t want to receive emails without subject. Or if you want to be really generous, a warning reply - like „please don‘t send emails without subject“ - and accept the message anyway. Thomas
Am 23.05.2020 um 17:11 schrieb J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>:
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
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Given the bouncing if sent via email, I feel even more strongly that owner messages without a subject should be allowed. These are potentially coming from people completely unfamiliar with the group or even groups.io.
However, I agree that the issue of hashtags qualifying as subjects in group messages needs to be fixed. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
Malcolm Austen
On Sat, 23 May 2020 15:54:07 +0100, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@tds.net> wrote:
Topics are supposed to have subjects. Not sure how the threading algorithm is supposed to work without one.Emails are (or should be) threaded on the basis of the threading headers, not on the basis of the subject line. Malcolm. -- Malcolm Austen <malcolm.austen@weald.org.uk>
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
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On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:39 AM, Duane wrote:
Unfortunately, a hashtag on the subject line is enough to allow it to be accepted.Yep...a source of annoyance for me. Topics are supposed to have subjects. Not sure how the threading algorithm is supposed to work without one. Regards, Bruce
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