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

[Tanstaafl]

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...

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...