[GNC] Mail formatting

[Geert Janssens]

(It's Geert by the way)

Hi Eric,

Hmm, I should have remembered that if I'm cc'd I get your original message 
rather than the mailing list's. So of course I saw your html markup, while 
others on the list wouldn't.

As Derek says, our mailing list software strips off html from a mail. Or in 
some more detail, when you write an e-mail your e-mail program will create two 
versions of what you write:
- one with all the html markup you added
- one in plain text
The one in plain text is made to resemble the html version as closely as 
possible. Some mail clients simply strip all the markup, others replace it 
with symbolic pseudo-markup (like the asterisks or slashes). What these 
replacements are depend on your mail client.

Regards,

Geert

Op maandag 13 mei 2019 11:28:24 CEST schreef Eric Coates:
> Hi Gert
> 
> For you (and other list recipients) perhaps but ...
> 
> In your response you included my message; on my system I see *bold* with
> the letters in bold  and /italic/ with the letters in italic - almost
> but not quite completely the same as you can see below. (I've
> deliberately avoided using quotes marks around the offending texts
> fearing they'd get messed with).
> 
> And, the message you sent (duplicated below) on the copy I'm looking at
> is in blue.
> 
> Oh well, it's another week and there'll be other challenges.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Eric