[Gllug] Garbled Mail - Was make xconfig

[Nix]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ian Norton moaned:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:53:30PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Steve Nelson stipulated:
>> >> Is it me or has anyone else's mail client completly garbled this message?
>> > 
>> > Looks pretty garbled in the gmail interface too.
>> 
>> It was a multipart message with an html part: the html part
>> had line breaks, but no <p>s with them or anything like
>> that, so anything rendering the HTML would have got single
>> long lines.
>> 
>> (Death to HTML mail.)
> 
> It looked pretty sick in mutt, :-)

Looked fine in Gnus, but then Gnus can be told to preferentially display
the text, and only if that fails shove the HTML through w3m. :)

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