* Ralf Angeli (2004-01-19) writes:

> * Ralf Angeli (2003-12-02) writes:
>
>> there are quite some people out there using Mozilla with
>> `format=flowed' enabled.  This is handled nicely by `flow-fill.el'
>> except when it comes to quoted blank lines.  Mozilla is quoting them
>> with `> \n' where `flow-fill.el' sees soft line breaks at the end. The
>> lines are filled and disappear.  You can have a look at an example in
>> comp.text.tex; the MID is <news:bqia0o$2tm$02$1@news.t-online.com>.
>> Compare the display of the message using `C-u g' and `g'.  In the
>> latter case some lines are missing.
>>
>> Is this the intended behaviour?  I find it a little bit irritating and
>> sometimes don't even want to answer such posts as I am afraid that
>> Gnus messes up the text.

[...]

> As it is currently a bit annoying that `flow-fill.el' doesn't behave
> like this I thought about an option to disable it completely as a
> quick fix.

Here is a tiny patch which adds this functionality: