[SciPy-Dev] email client is misconfigured - replies are breaking the threading

[Robert Lucente]

>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:23:22 +1300
>From: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [SciPy-Dev] What we do struggle with is lack of progress
>	on (Ralf Gommers)
>
>Hi Robert, note that your email client is misconfigured - your replies are
>breaking the threading. Can you please look into that?

I am not sure what "breaking the threading" means.

In https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/mailing-lists.html, I found

Use bottom-posting.

When replying to a message, please use bottom-posting. This means quoting the content you reply to and inserting your replies below each quote. For more details, see posting style.

Before, I was using Outlook from Microsoft Office Professional 2013. I have now switched to using EarthLink's Web Mail to reply to these emails. It seems to produce the appropriate number of ">".

Is this better?

If not, please make some suggestions. I just got my System 76 Bonobo running Ubuntu. Perhaps I need to use a Unix based email client?