Original message vs. Reply-To fedora-list messages

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Sunday 30 January 2005 4:22 pm, David Curry flailed at a keyboard and 
produced this:

> 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.

David,

Some e-mail clients will simply transform the smiley typographic symbols into 
graphical smileys regardless of whether the message was composed in HTML or 
not.  I believe that Thunderbird is guilty of this.  You should be able to 
turn it off in your viewing preferences.

-- 
Slainte,
Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford at mossroot.com)
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