[ExI] Weird!? - He's not on Facebook

[Dave Sill]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:34 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wish Spike and Bill would use the standard message quoting format. It
> would reduce confusion.  dave sill
>
> (I typed Still again - it's just in my fingers).  Sorry about he
> misattribution.  What are Spike and I doing wrong?  I would be glad to make
> it easier to do this.
>

It's not a question or right vs. wrong, it's a question of following an
established convention that has proven to be effective and is supported by
many mail agents. In a nutshell, when quoting from another message, e.g.,
in a reply, the quote should be of the format:

On <day> at <date>, <name> <email address> wrote:
> something

The ">" indicates quoted text and sometimes other characters like "| or ":"
are used. Gmail uses a gray vertical line in messages with non-ASCII
formatting.

If a quote includes a quote, the multiple quote prefixes show exactly who
said what. E.g.:

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:34 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com
<foozler83 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> I wish Spike and Bill would use the standard message quoting format...

For *much* more on this topic see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

-Dave
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