Jon Louis said:

> i wonder why mail client program(?) don't offer alternatives to
> more and more >>>>>s, like different font types, or colours.

They typically do. For example, Mail.app (the OS X mail client that  
comes with the operating system) is currently showing your text  
indented and coloured blue. If I'd quoted standardly formatted  
quotation as part of the text that I was quoting then that quoted  
quotation would appear green. The >>>s act as a marker to enable  
Mail.app (or Thunderbird or whatever) to do this. The standard format  
for email is plain ASCII text so it's not possible to mark quotations  
in italics or different colours directly. HTML emails aren't, if I  
recall correctly, a recognised standard and support for HTML in email  
systems is quite patchy.

Does anyone know whether voice interfaces support quoting through  
different voices or pitches or something?

Rich
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