bug#23733: 24.5; Emacs sometimes inserts superfluous ">" when sending e-mails

[Andreas Schwab]

Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> writes:

> I understand that it may be necessary to insert the ">" when Gnus sends
> the message. But certainly the ">" that was inserted only to quote
> "From" should not be shown on the *receiver* side. Instead, when Gnus
> displays the received mail or (as in the case of the mailing list) a
> HTML page is generated from received mails, the ">" should be stripped.

You can't do that because it's ambiguous.

Andreas.

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