If missing the quoted text while reading on the website in single-message or expanded view mode, there's a shortcut to view the thread, which helps you figure out what the person is writing about.  I don't know if there is a similar link in the mails that are sent out, individually or in digest form, but it might be available with a couple of clicks if not.

JohnF

BTW how do I quote in the website, with the ">" that is ?

I'm not sure what "wrapping" means. Are you talking about "quotefix"?

It's meant to automatically keep the maximum-length of the line (I've
heard that 80 spaces is the standard),

I define that it's a group owner post by signing it as such:

i.e.

If I't's not an official owner post, I sign it this way:

Brenda,

OR

Brenda
Nightowl >8# etc.

If I have put on the Owner/Moderator hat, I sign it like this:

Nightowl >8#
Owner/Moderator

Changes to the site today:

• Removed Show Message History button, quoting message by default for markdown/plain text messages
• Fixed pagination in Files View and in Files Search View
• Changed sort order in Files view to have folders show up before files
• Fixed event reminder display
• Work on bounce system, addressing bug where bounces are returned some time after the message was sent
• Fixed calendar bug with all day events that span multiple days
• Made archives a bit faster by not fetching message previews for all messages on load
• Testing generating new message-ids in the Beta group, to get around email services not showing messages you've sent
• Focus is now set on the text area when you reply to a message

Mark

4a. Re: [beta] Post preference, show message history, emoji
From: Shal Farley <shal@roadrunner.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:21:59 PST

Mark,

For Markdown and Plain reply boxes, there's a new Show Message History
button, ...

I really hate that terminology.

confusion versus the message thread context surrounding the message and its reply edit box. How about "Insert Quoted Message" - to me that better describes what it does.

that works similarly to how Y! Groups' button works, to insert the
quoted message in the reply box.

Can I have mine shown (inserted) by default? I almost always want to inline quote for context.

And... I love breaking the rules by not wrapping my plain text message bodies (because that generally works better with other people's email services and with on-line message archives that dynamically word-wrap at the window width); but I don't like that at all for quoted text. So could I have a wrap button that re-wraps paragraphs (blank line separated) and if the paragraph is reply quoted ("> ") inserts the quote marking on each of the wrapped lines. Note, a line with only the quote marking should also be considered a paragraph separator.

Diana wrote:>>Are you reading your gmail from the gmail web page? Or a mail client?<<

Mail client. Thunderbird. But G-mail gives you an option to send/forward your mail to another linked e-mail address, which I do.

I know where it is, I just want to know if he will still make it be a
default for us to be able to set. That will be remembered all the time.

Here on TBird (and I think someone else said their mail client did it
also), before hitting the reply button, I can highlight a section of
text - and reply will bring just that section text and the poster
(see above) into the reply (and I chose when I set up the client to
have the response below the quoted text).

How difficult would it be to implement something like that?

I'd rather see a button, perhaps next to the format option, to add quoted text. Hopefully that would encourage posters to*not* add it unless they consciously need it.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 02:24 pm, Shal Farley shal@... wrote:

Message-Id: Groupsio.0.54C95CFE.1010006@...

I guess it is probably still going to be unique, but no longer unique by construction: roadrunner implausibly could decide to issue some future message with exactly that ID, since as far as they know it has never been used. I thought you would entirely replace the IDs with ones you generate, same as the IDs for posts and replies via the web interface.

You know, you're right. I do that with edited messages for a specific reason, so that if someone replies to the initial message, and someone else replies to the edited message, I can still do threading correctly. But this is a different case, and .... thinking .... I can't think of a reason not to generate a completely unique message-id (excepting your ability to find messages....) So I've changed it.

Thanks, Mark

G mail can be set to forward all mail to another E-mail, for example, my g-mail address forwards my mail to my Yahoo one.

Brenda

I know where it is, I just want to know if he will still make it be a default for us to be able to set. That will be remembered all the time.

Thanks,

Brenda