Removing the indent-string quote marker '>' in emails.
I noticed that some e-mails come back to this (and other) mailing lists
with the traditional '>' quote markers removed.
For instance, instead of the following:
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Message | Comments
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>>> poster one wrote: |
>> poster two schrieb: |
> poster three écrivit: |
poster four escribió: |
|
>>> quote from original post | [original poster]
>>> ... |
|
>> first reply - part one | [poster two]
>> ... |
|
> second reply | [poster three]
> .. |
|
>> first reply - part two | [poster two]
>> ... |
|
Third reply from some user | [poster four]
... |
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I see this:
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Message | Comments
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| poster names deleted
|
quote from original post | [original poster]
... |
|
first reply - part one | [poster two]
... |
|
second reply | [poster three]
.. |
|
first reply - part two | [poster two]
... |
|
Third reply from some user | [poster four]
... |
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Actually, it's even worse than this will show up as in the list, because
in the first example, with my mailer, the different quoting levels are
also colored differently, making it easy to tell at a glance who said
what, while the tampered version is all in the same default color.
With messages such as the second version, my options so far have been
directing the message to /dev/null without reading it, or on rare
occasions where I am genuinely interested in the content, fire up Vim
and painstakingly replace leading spaces by greater than signs so as to
make the message readable.
I have checked the raw messages by running less against the mailbox and
the '>' have indeed disappeared into thin air, so it's not a case of my
mailer not doing his job.
Is this caused by 'poster four' in the above example having manually
removed the markers, or is an attempt from the mailer he is using at
prettifying the message? I have not been able to determine a pattern.
Messages are content 'text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii' more often than not,
so it doesn't look like a misuse of format=flowed either.
Has anyone noticed this and possibly found a workaround?
Thank you for your comments.
CJ
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