> I'll use whatever seems most appropriate for my reply. What does occasionally bug me is the way
> in which angle brackets are used. It's much easier to read this...
>
> ((Neatly boxed in quote))
>
> My response to the quote.
>
>
> Than it is to read this...
>
> >Here's some more made-up quoted text, but I'm making it a bit longer to demonstrate my point.
> This is how text appears when the angle brackets >>are generated automatically and mangled a
> couple of times by various different browsers and mail programs or whatever.
> >
> My reponse just looks like the second paragraph of the quoted text, right?


No fair!

You're comparing a short, one-line quote, neatly marked, with a long, multi-line quote that has been marked in a shoddy manner.
Of *course* the first one's going to be easier to read!

In my experience, the "neatly boxed" method can be at least as hard to make out with multi-line quotes as your second example above.

And the "markers down the left margin" method is not at all difficult to read *if it's done properly*.


Paul