You can call this autocorrection/ DWIM a bug

Whether it is by design or accident it is just wrong. If the MIME type is text/plain then the MUA should render it as text/plain and nothing else.

I've had similar problems in the past when sending plain text emails to colleagues at other orgs where the messages contained inline snippets of XML which we were discussing. The colleagues could not see the XML because their MS Outlook oh-so-helpfully rendered it into invisibility instead of just displaying the source XML. No idea how they got around that in the end because I didn't care to ask after a dozen back-and-forth emails of "You didn't send any XML", "Yes, I did.", etc.

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In reply to Re^8: Is ChatGPT like having a thousand monkeys? (Blank lines in emails) by hippo
in thread Is ChatGPT like having a thousand monkeys? by talexb

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