Original message vs. Reply-To fedora-list messages

[David Curry]

Gustavo Seabra wrote:

> 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.
>
Thanks, Gustavo.  You have just given me a few more reasons to find (or 
try to build) a FC2 rpm for Thunderbird.  I want to try out Firefox as well.