The initial post was a CC and was written first as a draft
using copy and paste in yahoo mail, and contained simple formatting.

Perhaps there's something broken in how your mail client sends rich (html) formatted messages. My understanding (which could be totally wrong), is that when you send a message with formatting, the mail client sends two versions, one plain text, one with formatting. I think the mailing list archives only saves the plain text formatted version. Perhaps your mail client is sending the plain text version incorrectly. (It should be noted the above is a total guess, and could be totally incorrect, but I hope it helps).

Looking at the pipermail archive, it is weird. I doubt it is too long and I also doubt that the text/plain segment of the email is limited to "Dear Phillippe" with everything else being only in the text/html part of the email. But I don't know the details of how pipermail archiving works. The strange thing is that this is (apparently) only a problem of the archive since people on the mailing list seem to have gotten the email intact.

eleriygarregwen wrote:

This was my last attempt to post my comment. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2011-January/001541.html

I just typed this first paragraph directly into yahoo e-mail without using copy and paste, and still only a fragment appears. My copies of my postings, sent to me by the mailing list, are also only fragments. Don't know whether this helps.

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 25231 ***