Kevin said:
It was indented. Outlook Express hates you (I think it hates everyone
- it certainly hated me, and now I hate it right back). You might
want to try a different news reader. I used to use Forte Agent, which
is pretty good overall. Now I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird, which has
some nice features Agent doesn't, but is still in early beta and
still missing a lot, IMO (the 0.3 milestone should be out soon - last
I checked it was on it's 3rd release candidate). There's also the
full Mozilla Suite, but that may be more than you want.
Agent costs money, Mozilla is free (in both senses). There's also Free
Agent, for news only (no email).
Yep. And spaces before TABs, in which case no reader will eat them. IIRC
someone told me some RFC once... I looked at 822, it says:
Writers of mail-sending programs should realize that there is no
network-wide definition of the effect of ASCII HT (horizontal-tab)
characters on the appearance of text at another network host...
So IMO it is veery simple. Do not use TABs in email. As in portable code.
BTW OutOfLuck kindly reminds you of that fact, since it does not insert tabs
if you press TAB. Only spaces. IIRC the only way to get TABs there is
copy-paste.
Anyways I think it is good to remember that TABs are not really "portable"
in an email. At least the ones at the beginning of line. And it is also
good to remember that I hate TABs for code formatting, because anything but
a most primitive code won't fit on 72 characters with with TABs for
indentation.