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Re: Marking quoted text in e-mail

Posted by Bill W4ZV on Apr 17, 2009; 10:30am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Marking-quoted-text-in-e-mail-tp2623929p2645093.html

danek wrote
I recently discovered, to my horror, that all of my beautiful quotes that I made through the Nabble web interface were not shown in the e-mail version that people subscribed "normally" to the e-mail list I was posting to received. I discovered this when somebody gave me a lecture on Netiquette for not properly marking my quoted text.

Now I am using my mail client to reply to Nabble messages so that my mail client will create the quotes, but I was wondering if there was some config option I was missing that might insert right angle brackets on quoted lines when sending out the e-mail. It would be the best of both worlds, as Nabble users will see the pretty block quote, and e-mail users will see regular e-mail style quoting. If there isn't such an option, then it would be a very good idea to include this (as a default setting no less) in future revisions of Nabble.
This is new behavior!  I went back into archives for both Nabble and Mailman for the list I use and determined that Nabble stopped working correctly sometime on April 6.  I made two posts using quoted text attributions, one at 8:10 EDT which was correct, and then another at 18:43 EDT which was not correct:

http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/2009-April/108612.html  (April 6, 08:10 EDT)
http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/2009-April/108653.html  (April 6, 18:43 EDT)

Something changed in the intervening 10 hours to cause the problem.  If this cannot be fixed I will be forced to stop using Nabble.