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Re:Use plaintext email by gowld on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:50PM (#20517732)
HTML has a hierarchical structure.

<div class="quote"> quoted content </div>

It's far better than trying to keep count of how many ">" are in play, and deal with the vagaries of soft linebreaks and hard linebreaks and wrapping of plaintext.

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Re:Use plaintext email by klez on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:44AM (#20523456)
Ok, but then your email client should be smart enough that if, for example, you quote two bullet points from a list it doesn't quote them as

    <div class="quote">
      <li>Second</li>
      <li>Third</li>
    </div>
Without the surrounding `<ul>`. Luckily Thunderbird is smart enough to do this. I don't know about other clients.
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