I have written thrice (1, 2, 3) in the past about the new Yahoo! mail interface, the Ajaxed interface to Yahoo! mail. It is incredible how slowly they make improvements to it. It's not like Yahoo! cares what I say, but of the points I raised over two years ago in my first post, they still haven't all been fixed.
But Yahoo! maybe trying harder. There is now a preference to add the greater-than signs on replied to messages:
Which is great. Until you try to use it. Here is a message I sent myself:
Here is what I get when I hit "reply" (this is a screen shot of the compose window, the text is editable):
Yes, each and every word of the message I'm replying to gets its own line. But it gets worse! Here's what I get when I send the replied message without touching anything:
Here each word of the replied to message gets its own line separate from the greater-than signs. I hope this is just a simple bug (I will submit a bug report about this) but this is simply ridiculous.