Oops! Not a Gmail issue.
On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 1:54:04 AM UTC-7, Diane wrote:
>
> Why am I getting these additional lines if I click within a post? What is
> their purpose? See screen shot please.
> *~Diane*
>
> On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 1:15:51 AM UTC-7, Diane wrote:
>>
>> 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 wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:47 PM, DEP/Dodo 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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