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.

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