On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:47 PM, DEP/Dodo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Correction: There are no vertical lines if I reply only at the top of my > message, both in Gmail and at the groups's site. > You are a "top poster". At least in Gmail. You type your replies above the text that it is a reply to. There are Internet 'wars' about top-posting versus bottom-posting. Top-posting has the advantage that you can ignore the old previous text that the sender didn't bother to delete. But it requires you to read the entire message from the bottom to the top. (Actually, you need to start somewhere in the middle, read down, then jump up, read down again ... and so on until you reach the top.) Bottom-posting reads from the top to the bottom, which is how I was taught to read when I was in school. (Would you believe, bottom-posting is actually banned in some forums?) If you had clicked on the ellipsis (little box with three dots in the lower left corner), you would have seen the message text you are replying to, complete with those vertical lines. You even could have written your reply text among them. Like I am doing now. BTW. Andy, I see this as a Gmail issue. > Why? It happened in Google Groups, due to the way Google Groups works when you post a reply in Google Groups. It had nothing to do with Gmail. The fact that it was a Google Group about the subject of Gmail users is irrelevant. It could have been a Google Group about red-wing blackbirds. Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
