The report has more information about when this happens, and Yahoo's explanation. The substitutions only occur when previewing an attachment, but do not alter the attachment itself. Plain text e-mails are not affected at all - which should explain the unreliable reproducibility which some readers have been reporting.
The columnist who wrote this piece claims that George Washington warned that "government, like fire, is a useful servant but a dangerous master." I liked this quote, which I hadn't heard before. However, when I tried to track down the source, I ran across the claim that it is an apocryphal quote which is sometimes attributed to Washington's farewell address, but that its authenticity has not been proven, despite serious efforts to do so. Although I have not checked the sources cited, they appear to be scholarly, and there doesn't appear to be any ulterior motive for those who question the quote to do so.
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The report has more information about when this happens, and Yahoo's explanation. The substitutions only occur when previewing an attachment, but do not alter the attachment itself. Plain text e-mails are not affected at all - which should explain the unreliable reproducibility which some readers have been reporting.
The columnist who wrote this piece claims that George Washington warned that "government, like fire, is a useful servant but a dangerous master." I liked this quote, which I hadn't heard before. However, when I tried to track down the source, I ran across the claim that it is an apocryphal quote which is sometimes attributed to Washington's farewell address, but that its authenticity has not been proven, despite serious efforts to do so. Although I have not checked the sources cited, they appear to be scholarly, and there doesn't appear to be any ulterior motive for those who question the quote to do so.