Python 2.7.6 help with white spaces?

[Scott W Dunning]

> 
> A few things that will make your communications more fruitful:
> 
> * Please don't top-post. Trim the quoted material to the parts relevant
>  for your response, and respond inline like a normal discussion.

Oh, ok sorry about that.  Like this?  

> 
> * Ensure that your message composer doesn't munge your text.

Anyway to check on my mail composer to see it it muges my text?   Also should I erase everything else in the message that I’m not responding to?  

Thanks for your advice.