Re: Pref - character for quoted text

[Oleg Rekutin]

Daniel Bratell wrote:
> 
> > I, too, hate html mail and if format=flowed
> > falls into that category, then I wish people would turn it off.
> 
> format=flowed mails are just ordinary text/plain mails which stores some
> information about line breaks and quoting level by following some
> conventions laid out in RFC 2646. (Home exercise, without reading the
> RFC, look at the mail source and try to figure out in what way it differ
> from a normal text/plain non-format=flowed mail)
> 
> The problem is that we presently can't preserve this information in the
> compose window without using the vertical bar.
> 
> On the other hand, could someone tell us _why_ they hate the vertical
> bar? It would be most interesting to know, so that we can make the
> message display better.

Indeed, the vertical bar does not indicate that an e-mail one is reading
is an HTML e-mail at all: it's just a replacement for the > and I think
it just looks better (and easier to see what's going on) with the
vertical bar rather than with the traditional >'s.


- Oleg