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Thread: Listing eMail Filter Still Destroys Descriptions

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    Thumbs down Listing eMail Filter Still Destroys Descriptions

    This is an old bug that has never been fixed.

    It should be possible to use the @ character in a listing description without the email filter deleting a whole block of description text. An @ on its own is not an email address.

    The logic of the email filter needs some serious work.


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    Default Re: Listing eMail Filter Still Destroys Descriptions

    Hi Mel, if you can give some examples of where you might use the @ then the management might b swayed by it. Personally I have never come across it, apart from lazy texting and pricing (so many articles @ £0.0).
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    Default Re: Listing eMail Filter Still Destroys Descriptions

    Quote Originally Posted by lofty100e View Post
    Hi Mel, if you can give some examples of where you might use the @ then the management might b swayed by it. Personally I have never come across it, apart from lazy texting and pricing (so many articles @ £0.0).
    Just put the text you wrote above as the description of a listing and see what happens.

    This bug has existed since the email filter was introduced. Reported numerous times but never addressed by eBid.


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    Default Re: Listing eMail Filter Still Destroys Descriptions

    LOL!
    I was writing a title for one of my German postcards, included in the title was 'Freising mail centre' . Try it and see what happens.

    i realised afterwards what happened, but I was puzzled at first, i thought I'd lost the plot til the Pfennig dropped!
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    Default Re: Listing eMail Filter Still Destroys Descriptions

    I wasn't aware that it extended to listing titles as well.

    Seems in your example that it is taking the 'g' at the end of Freising plus the word 'mail' and making 'gmail' out of it; then deciding it must be an email address and deleting it.

    It's not like it is hard to write a parser to recognise a valid email address (even I wrote one when I was running my eBid Knowledge Base). The one on eBid is not fit for purpose.


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    Default Re: Listing eMail Filter Still Destroys Descriptions

    We'll get that tidied up.

    Thx again,
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    Default Re: Listing eMail Filter Still Destroys Descriptions

    Quote Originally Posted by gazza View Post
    We'll get that tidied up.

    Thx again,
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    Still no sign of the problems raised on this thread being addressed.


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