Re: Original message vs. Reply-To fedora-list messages

[David Curry <dsccable@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.