On 2002.10.22, Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:04:08AM +0000, Scott Goodwin wrote:
> > The bugs, features, patches tracking email notifications could be sent to
> > a separate list, handled the same way the AOLserver discussion list is. I
>
> While you were there, did you see any admin settings on SF to change
> the formatting of the emails that do get sent out?  Currently, SF is
> neither sending out just the most recent reply plus a URL to the rest
> of the SF thread (which would be best), nor sending the entire thread
> in chronological order (which would be annoying but at least
> intelligble).  Instead, it seems to be doing some sort of worst of
> both worlds mix (which I never really bothered to mentally parse).
> Yuck.

It sends out the initial ticket text, followed by all comments
in reverse chronological order (latest first).

This was a change from sending it in chronological order (latest
last) which is really annoying -- having to scroll ALL the way
to the bottom of the email to see the most recent comment.  This
was a feature request I put in against SourceForge itself which
eventually got implemented.

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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