E-mailing discussion posts from within this site

Question

On a couple of occasions, I have used a discussion post's "email" button (embedded next to the reply button) in order to send myself a copy of an especially pertinent post. Each time, when the page comes up in which I am to fill out the email address, etc., I notice that the actual body of the email contains gibberish code. (Most of this is
at the end of each line).
And yes, when I receive the email the code is indeed visible there as well, rendering the post quite difficult to read.
I realize that I can just hand edit this before I complete my use of the discussion post's email feature. But...that seems like a clunky solution. Is something wrong at my end with the Discussion site or are others experiencing this, too?

Answer 1

The markup you see in emails is encoded into our posts automagically by the by the forum software. Pressing Return twice, for example, inserts the <br /> tag into the markup, even though that line break tag isn't visible to us in the text field on a Reply page.
This markup becomes visible in emails (presumably) because the email feature grabs the text from the source and attaches it to the email in a plain text format. The more markup that is contained in a topic, the more you will see in the emails you send.
When you become a little more familiar with the markup you see in the emails it will become less obtrusive. If you really don't like it, you can always press command-P and save the topics that interest you as PDFs rather than using the email feature.