SharePoint 2010 Blog Email Alert Issue

Question

I can't seem to make heads or tails of this issue. Any insight would be appreciated.
When a user updates an existing blog post - for example to fix a typo - all users who have elected to receive alerts do, however the body of the content is displayed with strikethroughs. Either all of the content or the title and first few sentences
- even if the change(s) made are not in the first few sentence. Here's is an example of the alert email i received. I changed two words to TYPO and this is how the alert was returned to me:
Title:
test5
Body:
this is how the alert email will look when a change is made.
​this is how the alert email will look when a change is made. this is how the alert email
will look when a change is made. this is how the alert email will look when a change is made.
this is how...
this TYPO how the alert email will look when a change is made.
​this is how the alert email will look when a change is made. this is how the alert email
will look when a change is made. this is how the alert email will look when a change is made.
this is how TYPO alert email will look when a change is made. this is how the alert email will look when a change is made. this is how the alert email will look when a change
is made. "
I'm trying to determine why is shows the strikethrough. I've tested this a million ways - versioning on/off, content approval on/off, etc. and again sometimes when i receive the
emails, everything in the body will have a strikethrough, and it just doesn't make sense to me.
I know we can customize the alert notification, but i'd hate to have to do that given this appears to behave more like a bug.
Has anyone else come across this, and other than customizing alerts, is there a away to either remove the strikethrough or fix it so that it actually only displays a strikethrough
on items that have changed?
Thanks!
Edit - it didn't come across when i submitted but the light gray text has the strikethrough it in on my alert email.
SPNoob

Answer 1

Here's the solution we were given by MS:
Problem:
You were intermittently getting strike on the text which you receive in email notification sometimes the strikes are on edited text sometimes they are on newly added text
for the site
Cause:
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation includes a set of predefined alert templates. These alert templates are stored in the Alerttemplates.xml file, which is located in the %ProgramFiles%\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML folder. Alerttemplates.xml defines the format, contents, filters, event types and properties used to create alert messages from each list type. A developer can customize alerts by modifying a copy
of the Alerttemplates.xml file and then loading the customized alert templates by using the command stsadm -o updatealerttemplates.
Resolution/Workaround:
Take a copy of alerttemplates.xml; look into: Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML
Replace all entries you find with <Limit Len="255" to 512
Be sure that you have a new filename!
run stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -url
http://SharePointName -filename YourFilename
Restart OWSTIMER; the SharePoint timer service in service manager
Hope this works for you!
Dianna
SPNoob