On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 09:54 -0500, Dr. John H. Lauterbach wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 14:38 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 09:08 -0500, Dr. John H. Lauterbach wrote:
> > 
> > > > This is with Plain Text and Quote reply set.
> > 
> > And yet it's still wrong. Your actual text in the reply posted to the
> > list starts with '> ', which is the usual convention for quoted
> > material (and my reply -- i.e. this message -- then adds another '> ',
> > as per convention, which is why you're seeing two sets). Nothing in
> > Evolution would do that by default, so either you are entering those
> > characters manually, or you're maybe using an external editor which is
> > doing it. That's what's causing the confusion. Note that this text I'm
> > typing does NOT start with those characters. They only appear to the
> > left of the section of your message that I'm quoting.
> > 
> > Also, as Pete also said, please consider trimming your replies to the
> > relevant part of the message you are commenting on (as I'm doing here).
> > 
> > poc
> > 
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> > Is this correct format?  J

No. The last line (the one you typed most recently) should have nothing
in front of it but instead has '> ', which is the convention for "this
is quoted material" (and of course now it has two copies of '> ' since
I'm quoting it back to you). IOW it's exactly the same as the rest of
the message, which actually *is* quoted material, so there's nothing to
distinguish it.

poc

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