root wrote:

So I'm going to poll the players and watchers:  Upon first seeing
Peekee's message, were you able to understand it within a reasonable
amount of effort?  If so, was a knowledge of HTML required?

Yes.  No, Thunderbird automatically Did The Right Thing (tm).

I'm generally familiar with the hex values of ASCII letters,
punctuation, and the space, so even without any hints that
HTML was involved, I could have translated it without undue
effort:

  49 20 52 65 67 69 73 74 65 72 20 61 (etc.)
   I     R  e  g  i  s  t  e  r     a


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