Mary Fisher wrote:

> "Andrew Price" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:10:49 -0000, "Mary Fisher"
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>The chevrons are added by the poster's software, not the reader's. I
>>>>suspect a "burp" in your Outlook settings took place, some time after
>>>>your correctly formatted post this morning.
>>>
>>>As I've said, it happens when SOME (only a few) posters reply to mine.
>>
>>Ahem ...
>>
>>Mary, the problem which Dick raised isn't lacking citation marks in
>>other posters' replies to yours.
>>
>>It's lacking citation marks in YOUR posts when you reply to (some)
>>others. Whatever the cause, the lacking citation marks fail to get
>>added at your end of the chain.
>
>
> I obviously haven't made myself clear. I'll do it one last time because it
> has nothing to do with sourdough.
>
> The chevrons are only missing on my posts when they go to certain other
> readers. They are in a minority but it happens always with those posts (and
> mails). It doesn't happen with the majority.

Case in point: I read these (at home) with Mozilla Thunderbird mail &
news client. I see the indents as blue bars, 1, 2 and 3 deep, in this case.
When I Reply, they get converted to >, >>, >>>, and >>>>, adding one for
Mary's post.
It seems some clients are not rpoperly inserting them...

Dave