On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 May 2016, at 5:42 am, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You are likely right. When I reply here, it looks one way. When I hit >> forward before, it seems to behave differently, although it makes no >> sense to me why it would do that. > > The message you forwarded was in html rich-text. > > I presume that's because mgorny posted in rich-text.
Nope, the original message sent to gentoo-dev was plain-text. > It depends on the mail client, but I think usually the setting to default to > rich- or plain-text email is for new messages, when you click "compose"; when > you click "reply" or "forward", typically mail clients maintain the setting > of the original author. Sounds like Dale's mail client just does the wrong thing when forwarding.