John McCoy wrote in
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Puckdropper puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote in
eb.com:

Trouble is, those are the idiots who are doing the programming!
Yahoo! Groups is terrible about this, and many of the iPhone email
messages I get don't have quoted text, which tells me it's off by
default.

I have seen people say that quoting can't be done on the
iPhone/iPad, which tells me that if it can, it's not easy
(it's probably a Jobs thing - he wasn't interested in
anyone's thoughts other than his own).

It's easy. Simply store the old message in memory, then write it in the
text box before you display it to the user. The hardest part is rewrapping
the message to include the "". If you have a decent header, the need to
use the greater-than character is debatable.

I don't think including context is possible in Yahoo Groups
if you reply in the Group. You have to do it in email.
Altho Yahoo seems determined to make Yahoo mail totally
disfunctional, so maybe you can't do it there, either,
now-a-days.

John


It is possible. When you reply to a message, click "show message history"
at the bottom of the text box. It might be below the fold, so you may have
to scroll to see it.

Puckdropper
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