Re: [Mingw-users] email quote text is hard to read

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 06/03/15 14:13, Earnie wrote:
>> From: asmwarrior Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 9:12 PM To: MinGW
>> Users List Subject: [Mingw-users] email quote text is hard to read
>> 
>> Hi, Earnie, you post is hard to read especially in quoted text. See
>> the screen shot in attachment. Any one has the same issue with me? 
>> It looks like you email client cut long text by adding a hard wrap,
>> but it doesn't add a "<" character in the beginning of next line,
>> . I'm using Thunderbird 24 under Windows XP.
> 
> Thanks for your concern.  The email client I am using at the moment
> is Outlook.  I do have it set to text mode and cannot control my
> client's formatting beyond that.

Text formatting in Outlook, (and its Outlook Express sibling), is, to
express it politely, probably the most dreadful of any MUA available.

> Anyway, I did not have a problem reading the email from your picture.
> I make sure that I include plenty of blank lines to highlight which
> is my response from the rest of the mail.

I'm using Thunderbird-31.5.0 on LinuxMint Debian, and I too found your
post a little difficult to read, Earnie ... a combination of Outlook's
dreadful formatting up front, and Thunderbird's similarly dreadful
handling of nested quotes, (a problem which has afflicted Thunderbird
since at least the earliest 3.0 incarnation I ever used ... I do wish
the Mozilla folks would stop chasing insanely incrementing major version
numbers, with little or no obvious user-visible change from one version
to the next, and focus on fixing actual issues).

-- 
Regards,
Keith.