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Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@usa.alcatel.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > I get these horribly formatted messages from the tech staff at my ISP. 
> [...]
> > What I see are usually a greeting line then maybe 5-6 empty lines,
> > then another line or two with another major gap then a message in what
> > looks like a long continuous line.
> [...]
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
> 
> Not sure about the effects multipart might have, but is your fill-column
> variable set to sensible values for that buffer? Was a problem for me
> once...
> 
> Colin

In `gnus-article-mode' I have 70 set.