Re: Gnus does not format my spam correctly!

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
> The vertical bars were presumably intended to line up neatly, forming
> a nice little table, but the spaces are too wide, or the horizontal
> lines are too short, or both.  Confusion over which characters are
> double-wide and which are single? Are the fonts not really
> fixed-width?  Inquiring minds, &c.

I think the people making this sort of thing are not usually well versed
with the notion of "quality" or "testing"; it may have looked OK on
their model XYZ word-processor but completely screwy to _everyone_ who
receives it.

I note that you sent it in UTF-8; was that the coding system used in the
original spam?

-Miles
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