Diane, Where are you reading these posts, on Google Groups web interface or in the Gmail web interface? Maybe where you are reading them makes a difference on how the quoted text is displayed. I always read via the Gmail web interface because I have each message e-mailed to me.
Jeff On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:40 PM, DEP/Dodo <[email protected]> wrote: > Note that both my *original *response to Marko's 8/20 (5:41 a.m.) msg. > and Jeff's *original* reply to me lack the vertical guidelines. Why? > Yet I see here that Jeff's reply below now has them. Again, why? > > *~Diane* > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Jeff Grossman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8/22/2015 8:27 PM, DEP/Dodo wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Marko Vukovic <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> If you wish to do an inline reply, simply select the text you want to >>> quote then hit the Reply button. There will be just one line at the top and >>> your reply will begin below the quoted text. >> >> >> Just as you did in your original reply and I did here. Sometimes I >> delete the empty one line at the top. Also, if I recall correctly, there >> sometimes is no line space that separates my reply to your comment just >> above.?? >> >> Another thing I sometimes do is move the cursor to the end of the other >> person's comment and reply immediately after, perhaps in bold to make it >> easier to find. >> >> What is it called when the reply is *not* inline? >> >> >> Diane, >> Personally I wouldn't reply on the same line as the previous person's >> comment and make it bold. It is sometimes difficult to see which is your >> new text and which is the previous person's comment. Any new comments you >> add should always be on their own line. >> >> When a reply is not inline, it is either top posted (your reply is above >> the quote) or bottom posted (your reply is below the quote). An inline >> reply is when your replies are in the middle of the quoted text. >> >> Jeff >> > -- 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.
