I always click on the ellipsis section to show the content that was
trimmed. And, yes, I do reply in the manner I described in a previous
post. It hasn't seemed to be problematic in Gmail, and, until this one
incident, I have had no problems on the Group's site, whether I responded
immediately after the other person's comment or skipped a line or two
within his/her verticals. I did it that way so my comments would address
immediately what the other person wrote rather than be at the top and away
from the actual statement. Essentially, I was doing the same thing you are
below but in "violation" of the vertical lines ("vertical violation"?)
I am going to be more mindful of this. Apparently, I'm notified when I am
told to the effect that no text showed--or whatever the wording was that I
saw. Otherwise, it seems to be okay.
*~Diane*
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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