How to "Re-Flow" Text in New Reply?

This one stumped the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store yesterday; let's see if any "Alpha-Mails" here can do better:
When you reply to a message which already contains quotes from various other contributors (each using different e-mail programs), some of those blocks of quoted text have annoying line breaks inserted, while others continue to observe the "f=f" (Format=Flow) protocol, which (just like when you compose a brand new message in Mail) simply flows the text continuously to whatever width your window happens to be at. Change the window width and the text reflows accordingly.
I'm trying to figure out a way to force that re-flow when I send a reply, so I don't end up sending a message with some quotes displaying in very narrow columns and other quotes still flowing "freely".
Any suggestions (or is it time for another Feature Request to Apple)?
Thanks,
John Bertram
Toronto
(BTW, there's a good primer on this subject at <http://joeclark.org/ffaq.html>. It also argues why "f=f" formatting is a more sensible way to display multiple generations of quoted text than the old method of a ">" followed by a fixed-length line with a hard break inserted.)

It is a question we have all been asking for 4 months.
Pages '08/'09 should still be in your Applications/iWork folder.
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