Re: [Evolution] Odd text display character drops

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

You should look at the source of what you sent (ctrl-U) to better see
what happens.

        Xav

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 03:45 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote:
> For years I have grown accustomed to annoying oddities in messages
> from people with Yahoo email accounts, generally when in reply edit
> mode. Text enclosed in dotted-line boxes which appear and disappear, and
> resist trimming edits. But this is something new - and my question, for
> those who might possibly have encountered something similar, is, is this
> an artifact of Yahoo Mail's peculiarities, or something Evo is doing?
>
> A friend of mine is in the habit of placing amusing headlines in his sig
> line. Here is one that popped up yesterday in his sig; I have retyped
> the full version to show all the original words, as he saw them on
> his system:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> On the day her father won the New Hampshire primary in 2008, Meghan
> McCain feared she would be arrested for removing Mitt Romney campaign
> signs from a Nashua street corner," reports the Boston Globe.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> But here's where it gets spooky. The first increment below is how my
> system reproduced it when it first appeared. The second one is from
> subsequent correspondence after I'd asked him what it looked like
> from *his* end:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> (1)
> > "On the day her father won the New Hampshire primary in 2008, Meghan
> McCa
> > paign signs from a Nashua street corner," reports the Boston Globe.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (2)
> > "On the day her father won the New Hampshire p
> > e arrested for removing Mitt Romney campaign signs from a Nashua
> street corner," reports the Boston Globe.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I cannot visualize what mechanism could be operating, either at
> Yahoo or in Evo, to drop some parts of a text string in one message
> as viewed by the recipient, then different parts of the same string
> in a subsequent transmission less than an hour later.
>
> I hasten to confirm that these are not manifestations occurring
> when in Reply Edit mode - this is how the text block looked in the
> two original emails as I received them.
>
> Have any of you seen anything resembling this? I am asking the list
> because of the possibility that it is the result of some optioning
> that I have yet to discover in Evo.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brewster
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