In my case, it's because I'm reading the reflector online, via the archives, so I have to paste in the text I'm quoting manually. The same would apply to those who receive the digests. Quoting an entire digest when replying to a post is extremely embarrassing, and I expect that a lot of people who get the digests turn off the quoting option to avoid doing it accidentally.
Julian, G4ILO Paul Bruneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a specific reason why some of you folks don't have your email software adding the quote characters "> " to the quoted material from the messages to which you are replying, or is it just an accident? It makes it very hard to see what the reply is and who has replied (see below for an example). I've never seen this behavior before I joined this mailing list. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com