# "Broken" quoting of/into email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-quoting-of-into-email/65705>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Juillet 6, 2017, 3:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-quoting-of-into-email/65705 "2017-07-06T03:25:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![hudrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9fc29f/32.png) [@hudrob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hudrob)\
**Post date:** [Juillet 6, 2017, 4:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-quoting-of-into-email/65705/3 "2017-07-06T04:15:45Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Why is recognizing quoted text important?

It is important when people reply inline - which our membership is particularly fond of doing, particularly in email. I’ve replied to your post in a similar fashion to what our members want to be able to do reliably (I’ve used the web interface to do so - it works consistently here, they wish to do it by email).

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> In terms of email threading, that is determined entirely by mail headers set when someone presses “reply” on a specific post, or replies to an email (same thing, that email represents one post, replying to the email is mechanically the same as replying to the post).

Threading, as I mentioned, I believe is largely dealt with by mailing list mode, which I believe we’ve worked to make the default for all of our users.

I believe that getting quoting “fixed” will help us a lot in terms of member satisfaction (and potentially retention). It will also let those of us running the org to focus on other things. 🙂

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