Detect and discard quoted versions of entire previous e-mail messages
Bug #110115 reported by
Matthew Paul Thomas
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Curtis Hovey | ||
Bug Description
When an e-mailed message to a bug report or question includes a complete quoted version of a previous message in that bug report or question, the quoted text should be discarded. This happens most often when someone is top-posting without quoting context.
It may save time to fix bug 2650 at the same time as this bug.
| description: | updated |
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| Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote Re: [Bug 110115] Detect and discard quoted versions of entire previous e-mail messages | #1 |
| Changed in launchpad-answers: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Changed in launchpad-answers: | |
| assignee: | nobody → sinzui-is |
| Changed in launchpad-answers: | |
| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
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| Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote | #2 |
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| Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in launchpad-answers: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
| Changed in malone: | |
| assignee: | nobody → sinzui-is |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Fix Committed |
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| Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in launchpad-answers: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in malone: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:27:51PM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> When an e-mailed message to a bug report or question includes a complete
> quoted version of a previous message in that bug report or question, the
> quoted text should be discarded. This happens most often when someone is
> top-posting without quoting context.
At least for Malone, I don't think that the text should be simply
discarded. I think it's better to hide the text while rendering the
comment, so that the e-mail notifications will still contain the full
message. That way we don't risk dataloss if we get our heuristics wrong.