Re: Gnus does not format my spam correctly!

[Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

Fair enough.  This is hardly causing me lost sleep, nor is it anywhere
near the most important thing I wish Gnus did better.

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

Nope.

| MIME-Version: 1.0
| Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP"
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I can try to extract the original text and send it along uuencoded or
something, but in view of what you say above, I'm not sure it's worth
bothering...?

zw