The thing that's weird is I could swear I've replied to messages that came through the list and it turned on rich formatting on its own.
I've had a number of messages rejected for rich text, and I never turned it on, just missed the switcheroo. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM, kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think it's actually random -- it has something to do with > stuff it finds in the mail header -- if someone sends you an > HTML-format email the reply will be 'Rich formatting' because it will > try to preserve the formatting in the quoted message. But if you're > reading a plain text message and reply to it, it will use whatever > formatting was in effect the last time you sent a message.