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[ronott1]

@ozexpat

I try to trim... but the other day i wasnt thinking.

sorry.

I should know better.

Still havent figured out how to do the filters so they go in the right spot.... No matter any way because I bracket in the posts and go to the website....

deb

There is a setting in preferences to turn off nested quotes.

Check the box: Remove Nested Quotes in Replies

 

[ozexpat]

Here is how it looks in my email

beverly evans quoted you in a post in The Old Folks Home.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ozexpat

@beverly evans and @perchie.girl

there is no need to repost quotes within quotes within quotes. just quoting the last post in your conversation or using the "@" symbol to get the attention of the person you are directing your comments at is sufficient.

up low bandwith people need quality not quantity

cheers tuff? And using just @ does what?

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[perchie.girl]

Yeah that person started her own thread....most days i cant get it to load

bama... who are you answering?

deb

 

[chickwhispers]

Excuse typos. On my phone. Even though I have a large screen my fingers are still too big for the keyboard.:/

 

[perchie.girl]

Here is how it looks in my email

beverly evans quoted you in a post in The Old Folks Home.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ozexpat

@beverly evans and @perchie.girl

there is no need to repost quotes within quotes within quotes. just quoting the last post in your conversation or using the "@" symbol to get the attention of the person you are directing your comments at is sufficient.

up low bandwith people need quality not quantity

cheers tuff? And using just @ does what?
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Sorry I was just trying to explain how the @ symbol works with a user name. I am going to drop it all now.

 

[chickwhispers]

Thanks Ron!

 

[ozexpat]

bama... who are you answering?

deb

he was referring to the madness in the thread i was talking about

Its now a good thread - https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ervation-farm-in-alberta/250_50#post_14278242

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Ron!

I have nested quotes turned off so It will only grab what is new in a post.

I do have to edit big multi quotes to remove what I am not replying too but it really cuts down on quoting and getting the same pictures more than one time.

Bandwidth issues are not on a lot of peoples minds anymore but it is a big issue for a lot of us.

 

[beverly evans]

@beverly evans

using the "@" function notifies you of a post and you can then link to it from your email - much the same as when somebody quotes you.

please dont take issue over my request - you can chose to ignore it.

not to long ago we had a person posting 20 great photos. then people quoted the photos, and then the next guy would quote the quote, including the photos - before too long the thread was awash with pages and pages of quotes of quotes of quotes.

When I am at home on high speed internet with 50mb/sec, it does not matter much but when paying for data by the mb like in many countries or on phones in the USA with caps, its data polution. When I am at my beach house (my internet there is 800 times slower) it makes the thread unreadable

Thanks for your understanding.

@ozexpat
Heck no, I'm happy for the help. I really don't want to be the fool with 8o lines above a 3 word answer.

 

[ozexpat]

Sorry I was just trying to explain how the @ symbol works with a user name. I am going to drop it all now.

No need to apologise - I was just showing how efficient it is.

@ronott1 thanks "oh wise one" - I did not remeber that box in the preferences