On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I am not sure exactly what you mean by this.  Do you mean adding a
> '>' at the beginning of each line and replying in place?  If so then
> replying to a 300+ line missive is a lot of hand editing.  It is
> especially nasty when lines have to be reflowed, new line breaks
> added and old '>>>>>' characters have to be removed.

Change to an email client that does this for you.  Most do.

> If we are not limited to plain text then we could use different font
> colors.  This is actually a easier to read system and does not
> require that we reflow lines as we add more and more '>' characters
> to the front of each line.

Are you seriously suggesting that the list should switch to HTML email
or something?  Incidentally, any decent email client will colour
quoted text for you.

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