Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: me too - but -- I wouldn't have replied just for a me too except... NOTE :   all I did was hit reply -- Dan had replied including something of another poster's (Matthew Hunt's) comment.. but  you will see that all

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread Ann Sanfedele
My mail is Netscape 7.0 Communicator... I have a pop server on road runner... but I seldom if ever go on line to use it.. I just download everything to my computer and don't leave it on line... everything comes in as plain text except some HTML is treated as an attachment. Not only doesn't

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread steve harley
On 2011-04-12 10:46 , Matthew Hunt wrote: One possibility: The material Dan quoted appears below his signature. Some mail applications suppress quoting signatures (presumably everything after the --). that's exactly it; two hyphens is a standard (actually borrowed from Usenet) to denote a

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:36 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: that's exactly it; two hyphens is a standard (actually borrowed from Usenet) to denote a signature block pedant rfc=1849 The standard is actually two hyphens and a space (-- \n). The PDML list signature is compliant.

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: My mail is Netscape 7.0  Communicator...  I have a pop server on road runner...  but I seldom if ever go on line to use it.. I just download everything to my computer and don't leave it on line... everything comes in as

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
For me, GMail seems to take everything after the two dashes and space delimiter and hides it, leaving, in its place, the message Show quoted text -. If I click on that message, it restores what it hid (usually only signatures). Dan [SIGNATURE MOVED TO END TO ELIMINATE PROBLEM] On Tue, Apr 12,

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread Thomas Bohn
2011/4/12 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: For me, GMail seems to take everything after the two dashes and space delimiter and hides it, leaving, in its place, the message Show quoted text -.  If I click on that message, it restores what it hid Gmail hides everything wich you can find

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread Ann Sanfedele
ahha! and I just hit reply and it stripped out the PDML delimitator in this email -- so it appears to be my Netscape thanks guys! ann Matthew Hunt wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: My mail is Netscape 7.0 Communicator... I have a pop

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread Ann Sanfedele
That worked! so it is a combination of your mail and mine... gosh, and we get along so well otherwise ;-) ann Daniel J. Matyola wrote: For me, GMail seems to take everything after the two dashes and space delimiter and hides it, leaving, in its place, the message Show quoted text -. If I

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread steve harley
On 2011-04-12 12:19 , Thomas Bohn wrote: 2011/4/12 Daniel J. Matyoladanmaty...@gmail.com: For me, GMail seems to take everything after the two dashes and space delimiter and hides it, leaving, in its place, the message Show quoted text -. If I click on that message, it restores what it hid

Re: Gmail quoting (was: Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase)

2011-04-12 Thread steve harley
On 2011-04-12 11:42 , Matthew Hunt wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:36 PM, steve harleyp...@paper-ape.com wrote: that's exactly it; two hyphens is a standard (actually borrowed from Usenet) to denote a signature block pedant rfc=1849 The standard is actually two hyphens and a space (-- \n).