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 -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable justice low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list