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David dgboles at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 15:00:24 UTC 2014


On 1/19/2014 8:45 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:16:40PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Allegedly, on or about 18 January 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
>>>> In particular, you should avoid top-posting and posting in HTML.
>>>
>>> Are you going to facepalm, or am I going to smirk?  At the least, I am
>>> amused.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Not sure I get your point Tim. My reply was not top-posted and used plain
>> test. Part of the quoted material may have been in HTML so I guess in all
>> rigour I could have made sure to avoid that. Frankly I didn't think of it.
> 
> It's the Gmail trap; even though it seems like plain text, it is not.
> You have to explicitly choose plain text (lower right of the compose
> window I think).  Once you do, then it becomes obvious that it was not
> plain text before.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> PS: Your latest response also had an html part.
> 


Gmail calls it RTF. Rich Text Format. It is the Gmail default but it can
be disabled.

<http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/rich_text_format_RTF.html>

-- 

  David


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