Original message vs. Reply-To fedora-list messages
Gustavo Seabra
seabra at ksu.edu
Mon Jan 31 05:25:35 UTC 2005
David Curry wrote:
> James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> David Curry wrote:
>>
>>> I replied to a message yesterday and read that message today as
>>> distributed by the list and was startled to see a smiley face in the
>>> text I composed in place of the :) I had written. I did not find
>>> any html coding in the message source. I guess the e-mail reader is
>>> translating the source into html.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a function of your mail reader. I think that it can be
>> turned off and I refer you to the help included with your mail reader
>> on how to do this, as I like the 'smileys'.
>>
> Thanks, Jin. I do not mind the 'smileys' in the least. Rather, the
> appearance of the graphical in what I thought was a text message
> startled, and raised concerns in my mind about sending unintended html
> messages to the list.
>
The smiley isn't the only thing. You may also notice that Thunderbird
makes text appears as bold if between asterisks, like *this*. Links also
appear as html links, and usually work as such, even in a text message.
These are just the ones I noticed.
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