4 Jan
2007
4 Jan
'07
2:32 p.m.
I'm seeing a few messages where the text being replied to isn't quoted
(anything from Al and Billy Pettit it seems, but there have been one or two
others) other than a separating line beneath old and new text, making it
confusing at first glance (particularly where the actual line and reply might
be off the bottom of the screen).
Am I alone in this? 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.
99% of messages are fine though, and either get displayed with quote
characters or displayed with a solid coloured line to the left of the quoted
text. If it's just me I'll try and find the cause though; if it's not I'll
just put up with it :-)
cheers
Jules
4 Jan
4 Jan
5:06 p.m.
New subject: Missing quotes in message replies
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
I'm seeing a few messages where the text being
replied to isn't quoted
(anything from Al and Billy Pettit it seems, but there have been one or
two others) other than a separating line beneath old and new text, making
it confusing at first glance (particularly where the actual line and reply
might be off the bottom of the screen).
Am I alone in this? 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.
You are not alone in this. I think it has something to do with the way that
replies to HTML emails are generated. I find that emails sent to me as
plain
text get automatically quoted properly when I hit 'reply', but that HTML
junk
doesn't.
My theory is that others don't bother to manually put in the "> " before
the stuff that didn't get it automatically.
Vince
6:01 p.m.
Hey all,
On 04/01/07, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I'm seeing a few messages where the text being replied to isn't quoted
(anything from Al and Billy Pettit it seems, but there have been one or two
others) other than a separating line beneath old and new text, making it
confusing at first glance (particularly where the actual line and reply might
be off the bottom of the screen).
Am I alone in this? 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.
I have been seeing the same sort of thing. I am running gmail under
firefox and IE. A couple of sets of replies I have seen under the
signature line (dash dash space CR/LF), resulting in a little head
scratching before realising what was happening.
99% of messages are fine though, and either get
displayed with quote
characters or displayed with a solid coloured line to the left of the quoted
text. If it's just me I'll try and find the cause though; if it's not
I'll
just put up with it :-)
Appears to be problems with bit rot... Although other things indicate
that the universe is ganging up on me today so I assumed it was just
me.
Simon
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10:14 p.m.
Well,
At 01:32 PM 1/4/2007 -0600, you wrote:
I'm seeing a few messages where the text being
replied to isn't quoted
(anything from Al and Billy Pettit it seems, but there have been one or
two others) other than a separating line beneath old and new text, making
it confusing at first glance (particularly where the actual line and reply
might be off the bottom of the screen).
This is a reply to the 3 or so lines above, which definitely show as quoted
in Eudora Pro.
Am I alone in this? 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.
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5 Jan
5 Jan
12:50 a.m.
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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