On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Brian May wrote:
> Just my 2 cents: I think using TABS is Ok (I personally do not
> know if any programs or OS that do not default to 8 characters),
> except it messes up the formatting when you quote the message
> in many mailers (eg pine, mh), using the Reply function.
\begin{Technical support}
Well it works on my machine (Mutt)
\end{Technical support}
> Personally, I think the best formating possible might be to MIME encode
> a text version *and* a HTML version (I think most mailers support MIME
> these days?????), however, entering the message might be difficult with
> most mailers...
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HTML in mails is bad, it is WRONG.
> Given that people won't change to HTML overnight (if at all), IMHO,
> any program that displays Mail using a proportional font is broken
> and should be fixed if tables are to work.
I recon that mailers should display in proportional but have AI that dectects
tables and ascii art and displays them in monospace. I believe compuserve once
worked like that in Windows.
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