> > Can anyone else verify this? Are my messages actually
> > distorted on the other
> > end?
>
> you are indeed sending plain text mail but your font
appears as arial.
> Arial appears small as compared to the usual courier or courier new
> font rendered for text mails (as far as my windows gui client is
> concern though :-). My advice is to use a fix-width font
(like courier
> new) and _not_ a proportional font (like arial).Plain text does not specify the font (by definition).
It's just the text. I suspect the people who are having
problems reading his mail are having trouble with UTF-8, as
was previously suggested, or something along those lines.
You are right. I made an ill-advice on font rendering. I'm using msoutlook
client and it (by default) automatically renders text differently according
to the encoding. Eg, your reply and transami have utf-8 flagged, while gavin
has latin iso. Me usually use westeurn iso w/c does not differ w gavin's
when rendered. I think it's a mailclient fault here. I've force my outlook
to use courier new, and it still renders utf-8 as arial 
-- Markus
P.S. Are any other poster's messages similarly difficult to read?
not difficult, just different 
As I said, arial looks smaller specially
in some gui env. I'm replying using us-ascii and see if it gets
smaller/bigger -weird
kind regards -botp
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