Mark,
Here's an example, which you can find in CatladysTestGroup.

Autosig reads:
test long signature
line 1 etc etc etc
line 2 etc etc etc
line 3 etc etc etc

Sig as appearing in posted message:
test long signature
line 1 etc etc etc<

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be huma

I can testify that signatures are being truncated in messages, both in original messages and in message edits. It just took me five or six tries to amend the bottom line of a group member's signature, both within an edit of her message and within the auto-sig itself after changing that. It kept losing the last four fifths of the last line. I finally got it to work by adding a blank line after the last one.

I just tested this in my test group: changed the third line of an auto-sig, posted a message, and the third line of the auto-sig was nearly gone and what was left of it was gibberish.
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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be huma

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 07:14 PM, Janet Smith wrote:

Messages sent through email seem to go through (so I am doing that here since my message was rejected on GMF because it was incomplete.)

Messages created through groups.io are being truncated before they are posted. Sometimes just a few words, but enough to be problematic.

I was unaware of this and can't reproduce this. I'd appreciate any additional information you could provide, including pointers to truncated messages in archives, as well as any tips for how to reproduce it.

Thanks,
Mark

Topic has run its course. Locked.

Mark

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Clearly, everyone should use vi. <sigh>

It's not the job of a web input form to accept every proprietary format out there. It's the job of the user to put it in plain text first and there are a thousand ways to do that up to and including using Word itself to save the file as txt file first.

Best,

Glenn

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Our experience differs. This is a paste from Word. I do it all the time and it works well enough for me.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 05:17 PM, Donald Hellen wrote:

if it's convenient, you can use Windows Notepad, or
Notepad++

We're talking (or at least I'm talking) about group members who just want to post their messages. I'm not gonna get my group members to do any of that. I just tell them don't copy/paste from Word.
 
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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Rubens . . .

On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 18:58:46 -0300, "Rubens" <rubens.alves@outlook.com>
wrote:

JC| Unfortunately Word does not play
| nice with the editor in groups.io
| abd I discourage members from
| doing that.

I believe when you go to past text from another program, you have
multiple choices of HOW to past that text if you use the right click
menu instead of CTRL-V. At work, there are times when I don't want to
past text into another program that's formatted in that program. I
choose the past option on the right of the right click menu when I
want to do that.

Of course, if it's convenient, you can use Windows Notepad, or
Notepad++ (a 3rd party notepad-like program with additional features
over notepad.

Donald


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As I said: I tell my group members not to use Word. And people are not generally going to use plain text. So, yeah.

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

When I'm composing a draft, before I leave the composition page I select all and copy. Then I make sure after leaving that the draft has been saved. If it hasn't (which has only happened a couple of times), I simply paste the contents of the clipboard. 

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MW> That's why I always compose
> long emails in a word processor

JC| Unfortunately Word does not play
| nice with the editor in groups.io
| abd I discourage members from
| doing that.


This is because you have to use
a "pure TEXT" editor, like TextPAD
or the Windows NotePAD for tasks
like that (p.e. compose a email).
Not a word processor like MS Word.

[ ] Rubens













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Unfortunately Word does not play nice with the editor in groups.io abd I discourage members from doing that.

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Similar things have happened to me, not necessarily with groups.io. That's why I always compose long emails in a word processor rather than in an email client or web browser, but one fat fingering that I am capable of is inadvertently selecting a large block of text and replacing it with a blank. With just the right combination of clumsiness and inattention, I can to this so fast I don't realize what I've done. A ctrl-z (undo) will restore block if it is still is in the command stack.

I'm not saying this is what happened to Andy, just pointing out a scenario that would look like this one.
Marv

I'm pretty sure she means that the older draft would be updated to the newer one.

So you would have two different copies of the same draft?  That's disturbing.

Andy

Sorry, I didn’t see than answer. That’s exactly what used to happen to me, though. I’d find an old, partial version of the draft. But often, after I refreshed the group page, it would give me the more recent one.

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu