Allegedly, on or about 06 June 2017, Bob Marcan sent:
> >  [...]  
> >  [...]  
> >  [...]  
> > 
> >  [...]  
> > 
> >  [...]  

> Empty mail again. What is going on?

I suspect you've got an option set to mask/hide/mute/silence quotes in
replies.  Some mailers offer that as option to make it easier to see new
content in messages that are bloated with unedited quotes of prior
messages.  But they can get confused when respondents do not put a
*COMPLETELY* blank line between quotes and responses, and the mail
client can end up muting the whole thing.

And that is what was done in the apparently blank message that you
commented about.  They left a ">" marker below the quotes, between the
quote and their response, instead of removing it to leave a blank line
between quote and response.

That kind of thing confuses various mail clients that colour or dim the
quoted text, to make it easier to find new content.  It isn't that easy
to read messages splattered with messy quoting with comments jammed in
bits.  People really need to make it easier to read their responses.

-- 
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 
(always current details of the computer that I'm writing this email on)

Boilerplate:  All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is
no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages
posted to the mailing list.

Windows tablets are more like suppositories.


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