On 04/11/11 5:41 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > DO NOT TOP POST. sadly, gmail/googlemail is very hostile to proper quoting practices. it hides quoted text, while leaving the whole previous message appended, without any form of > quoting. The only workable way around this is to use a imap/pop client like Thunderbird with it, which then disables a lot of the web functionality of gmail... meanwhile, yahoomail still can't seem to get the concept of 'references' right, so every message reply via yahoo breaks teh thread quoting on systems that rely on References headers to maintain the proper threading. cellphone email is just awful, promoting one line top posted messages. Sadly, its a lost battle. these people are better off on facebook.