On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 16:04 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
On 10/17/2022 6:09 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 13:43 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
> > Leave a completely blank line between quotes and reply, do not
> > type
> > immediately below quotes (like I've done, above). Various email
> > clients re-wrapping functions make a mess of separating different
> > paragraphs if you don't do that. Sometimes you need to do more
> > than
> > two blank lines to break them apart, you can usually delete them
> > away
> > once you've beaten its editor into submission.
> >
> > Evolution will do that, and I see he used Thunderbird. So,
> > apparently,
> > it'll do that, too.
> Agreed. I'd also note that in many MUAs, including Evolution and I
> think TBird, if you select the material to comment on before
> hitting
> Reply, it will Do The Right Thing. IOW if people paid more
> attention to
> selective quoting rather than just adding a comment this problem
> wouldn't arise.
>
> poc
Ok I will do like I did with this post. I cut off all below the
bottom
line and the line its' self this time. I hit enter for a new line and
posted this, so I wasn't top posting. Did this work?
It did, thanks.
poc