[Elecraft] Quoted text

[G3VVT at aol.com]

In a message dated 14/04/05 13:26:26 GMT Daylight Time,  paul at ethicalpaul.com 
writes:

Is there  a specific reason why some of you folks don't have your email 
software  adding the quote characters "> " to the quoted material from 
the  messages to which you are replying, or is it just an accident? It 
makes it  very hard to see what the reply is and who has replied (see 
below for an  example). I've never seen this behavior before I joined 
this mailing  list.

Thanks,

Paul



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Paul,
 
My particular e-mail software just does not appear to do what you ask,  only 
quotes any parts I happen to highlight on the original document.  This shown 
at least to me as indented text as is your original message  quoted at the head 
of this reply, but which unfortunately gets lost through  the system. Also, 
which I think is even more important, try to keep the parts of  the original 
included brief, only use the parts that have relevance to my  reply.
 
One day may find the method of doing what you ask to include the ">"  
characters and let you go away rejoicing.
 
Conversely I find the use of continual ">" characters cloud the whole  
message with semi useless information that is even more frustrating when  posters 
persist in adding the whole message when it is not really needed,  plus *all* of 
any previous multiple replies with double and triple ">"  characters. Must 
really use up Eric's storage space for the  Reflector.
 
It sometimes gets bewildering to search though such messages to find what  
the poster's reply actually is!
 
Bob, G3VVT