On 04/22/2011 12:38 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
* From: * Mauro Lacy
What th e f uck is wrong with your e-mail writer?
It was made by Microsoft?
Or is the odd spacing encoding instructions for getting Rossi's cat
out of the bag? ;)
... Could be that too. The program is MS Office. It picks up the
incoming font and format.
You should seriously consider switching to plain text, or to a good html
editor, Jones.
If you don't believe me, look at the html part in your messages, and
prepare to be horrified. Here's a the equivalent html source excerpt of
the original message I quoted:
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FACE=3D"Calibri">Kudos</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT =
FACE=3D"Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT =
FACE=3D"Calibri">is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT =
FACE=3D"Calibri">the translation of a Greek</FONT></SPAN><SPAN =
LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT FACE=3D"Calibri">word meaning acclaim or praise =
for exceptional achievement</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT =
FACE=3D"Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=3DLTR><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN></P>
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applies first</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT FACE=3D"Calibri"> =
and foremost</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT FACE=3D"Calibri"> =
to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT FACE=3D"Calibri"> =
Andrea</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT =
FACE=3D"Calibri">Rossi</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT =
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the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT =
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FACE=3D"Calibri">who were</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT =
FACE=3D"Calibri">not</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT =
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FACE=3D"Calibri"> for this kind of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> =
<FONT FACE=3D"Calibri">financial risk-taking</FONT></SPAN><SPAN =
LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT FACE=3D"Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN =
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FACE=3D"Calibri">but</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT =
FACE=3D"Calibri"> also to the US taxpayer, as</FONT></SPAN><SPAN =
LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT FACE=3D"Calibri">they</FONT></SPAN><SPAN =
LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT FACE=3D"Calibri">(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN =
LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT FACE=3D"Calibri">though several
Apparently, the problem with the odd spacing occurs when my mail reader
(Mozilla thunderbird) tries to render that to "simple html" format.
Besides that, you're wasting bandwidth. I mean literally, not
metaphorically, of course.
