Original message vs. Reply-To fedora-list messages

[Gustavo Seabra]

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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