I hadn't noticed until you asked (and I'm not using the digest) but
Thunderbird places the quote arrows at the left when I make this reply.
But, when messages with quote arrows arrive in my inbox, (and I've
verified that the quote arrows are in the source text as received) when
Thunderbird displays them the quote arrows are replaced on the left with
vertical bars and vertical bars are also added on the far right of the
page (well beyond the end of the text). So it's clear that the mail
program and version you use may be diddling with the display. Perhaps
there's a customization setting to control it but I haven't looked very
hard to find it if there is one.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/15/2013 8:46 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Has anybody else noticed this, and can one of us offer an explanation?
>
> Until about a week ago, when quoting the words of somebody else in a message,
> and to
> ensure that those words are recognisable AS quotes ("text only, formatted as
> a quote from a
> mail message" as my mail program does it.), each line would have at its
> commencement a >
> quote arrow.
>
> Thus it was easy to differentiate between quoted text and non-quoted text.
>
> Since about a week ago these > arrows no longer show and all text looks the
> same, quoted
> or not quoted.
>
> I find this annoying.
>
> It could be merely an artifact of my machine, since I have elected to get my
> e-mails as text
> only and not html text, and maybe some systems engineer has decided that such
> a
> preference is obsolete, and done away with honouring the practice..
>
> I have taken to inserting a dash beside the >, thus ->, which seems to have
> fooled the system
> into not tampering with the intent, and makes it clear in my messages which
> parts are quotes
> and which are not..
>
> In my mail I do not see the coloured bars at the margin that some systems
> have to show
> which are quotes and which generation of quote each one is.
>
> Comment?
>
> Brian Swale
>
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