A big-ish machine, cannot boot

[Chuck Swiger]

On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Antony Mawer wrote:
> If you select any text in the message then click reply, it only quotes
> the selected text (not entirely intuitive, but that's the way they
> decided to make it work).


Ah, yes:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23394

There's a standard for mail and news readers (GNKSA) which expects "Provides adequate quotation and attribution facilities"; it's expected that there should be a preference which allows a user to decide whether to quote all text or just the selected text when composing a reply.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck