Etaonsh wrote:

> Marco: My replies are distinguished
> from the quotes by the lack of '>'s
> between lines.
> I am flitting between tv internet
> and public computers at present and,
> in the former, '>'s are needed to
> create blank lines, and the line
> length is restricted by the system.

I see. The main problem is that, when your system splits an original quoted
line into several shorter lines, it adds the ">" symbol only at the
beginning of the first short line:

Foo Bar wrote:

> The horse is

white.
No, you foo,
the horse is
black.

> And I can

demonstrate it
very easily.
There's nothing
to demonstrate:
it's black.
Richard

You see the problem? who said "demonstrate it..."? Who said "There's
nothing..."? Neither line starts with a ">".

If you don't have a better options, you should perhaps create those blank
lines starting by ">"'s:

Foo Bar wrote:

> The horse is

white.

>

No, you foo,
the horse is
black.

>
> And I can

demonstrate it
very easily.

>

There's nothing
to demonstrate:
it's black.

>

Richard

It's not ideal, but its anyway a visual little help of the boundaries in the
text.

Ciao.
Marco