[Rhodes22-list] The list is plain text

[Todd Tavares]

Peter,

This is what I see on my phone through gmail (if it attaches)
It appears as Roger inserted his answers into the quoted text of the other
posters email.

Todd T

tavares0947 at gmail.com

On Mon, May 3, 2021, 1:40 PM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:

> I’m not sure what Todd is seeing or why, but the list software stores and
> send emails in plain text  It’s always been this way, with the possible
> exception of very early days back in 2002.
>
> If you look at the source for the web page for Roger’s post (
> http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/2021-May/087903.html),
> you can see that in the message itself, while there is some escaping of
> special characters going on (e.g. apostrophes are escaped to '’’),
> there’s no html, and therefor no way to support formatting like bold text
> or colors.  But, the message is within <pre> </pre> html tags, so spaces,
> tabs, and new-lines should be preserved from the original.
>
> Different email client applications may handle quoted text differently,
> which may explain why Todd is seeing quoted text in red.
>
> While on the subject of email clients, they also may their own decisions
> about what constitutes a ’thread’.  I’ve created this post as a reply to
> Todd, but I’ve changed the subject.  I’m pretty sure that Mailman will
> consider this a continuation of the ‘Centerboard Question’ thread, while my
> email client will consider it the start of a new thread.  So, what I see as
> an email thread on my computer may look different on yours.
>
> —Peter
>
> > On May 3, 2021, at 11:30 AM, Todd Tavares <tavares0947 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I see Rogers reply in black to the quoted email text in red...
> >
> > Todd T.
> >
> > tavares0947 at gmail.com
> >
>
>
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