On 4/12/11, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > 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... I have to admit gmail's defaults didn't help. But it can be set properly... at least nobody's screamed at me for posting wrongly since the last time a couple of years back :D Not sure if the same defaults still apply now since I haven't touched my settings for ages.