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if you do inline quoting, MS Outhouse web client thinks that everything after the beginning of the quotation is a copy of the previous message and folds the whole thing, meaning your recipients get back what looks like an empty message. Really.

Gah; that explains it. Occasionally I get a reply saying "you just sent me a blank email", while the text of my email is quoted right there in the email they've just sent me!

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The only correct response to that is, "No, I haven't. Please fix your email client, or learn how to use it properly."

That was my response 15 years ago. Unfortunately, I've lost that battle and moved on. There comes a point when trying to fight the common expectation leads to zero return.

(And yes, I miss the days where SMTP & NNTP servers would actually enforce the ratio of non-quoted lines vs. quotes lines, forcing users to trim the relevant parts of the message they are replying to.)

I used to try this. Imagine being the only person using some weird text based thing instead of just simply using "email" (ie. logging on to webmail). Remember there is a huge number of people who have not used anything but webmail (like gmail).

Using gnus, Outlook sees my quotes correctly. You can also "wash" messages from others so they look right.

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