How to fix Thunderbird's quoting?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Is there some way to fix Mozilla Thunderbird so that, when composing
plaintext replies, it *doesn't* condense multiple levels of quoting
down to ">>> " (with no interleaved spaces)?

I want to just consistently prepend "> " to quoted lines, without
being `smart'--is there some way of making it do that? *Didn't* it
previously do that, at some point way back in history? Anyone know?

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