I'm seeing a few messages where the text being
replied to isn't
quoted [...] other than a separating line beneath old and new text,
making it confusing [...].
Am I alone in this?
In seeing it, or in finding it confusing? :-) In either case, "no".
I just wondered if it's something broken within my
email client
(Thunderbird) and it's stopped rendering what it thinks is quoted
text properly for certain classes of messages.
No. My mail client doesn't do fancy-schmancy rendering - it runs in a
text window, in fact - and it shows me the emails as they are. It
doesn't even burst MIME multipart messages without specific action on
my part. And I'm seeing the same syndrome you sketch.
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