Bug 1050 – Relay of newsgroup to Bugzilla should remove excessive quoting

At the moment, there are quite a few people reading/posting to digitalmars.D.bugs who seemingly know nothing about Usenetiquette*, and would just quote the entire message without paying any attention to how much needs to be quoted to show the context. The way it's happening on d.D.bugs is even worse - people are quoting the entire newsgroup post, including the field list (replying to a new bug report) or table of changes (replying to a comment or other change). This is cluttering up Bugzilla issue pages like crazy. See issue 1023 for a recent example. If we're going to carry on relaying replies to the bug posts on d.D.bugs, we should do something about this clutter. IMO the best course of action (which I hope isn't too hard to implement) is to: (a) Remove the field list or table of changes if present (b) If a quote of the _entire_ issue description or an _entire_ comment is there and not interleaved with the poster's own comments, then remove this quote. The "(In reply to comment #n)" line could be added to replace it if not already present. There probably should be some note added like "[quoted message removed]" where this has happened. This would help to avoid the confusion should the attribution line remain in, considering that it would be difficult to detect all possible attribution line formats.

Oops, forgot the footnote... * OK, so it may not be Usenet exactly, but that doesn't affect Usenetiquette's raisons d'etre and shouldn't affect the etiquette itself either.

IMHO, this needs to be fixed socially not technologically. If you want to spend time working on the bugzilla source to try to improve it you're welcome to, but I'm unlikely to.