Below is how Agent version 4 handled the e-mail when converting it to
text.  It showed up in a similar manner only with proportional fonts
in my inbox.  I am responding to the list because this may be useful
information on email in general.

Clark Morris

On 14 Jul 2008 11:31:23 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:

>When I send emails to IBM-MAIN, I always try to remember to click the 'Show 
>plain text' button. Otherwise, the email is sent as rich text and I've been 
>told that everything flows into one big 'blob' and is difficult to read.
> 
>This formatting problem doesn't occur when I send emails to individuals. And 
>because the default always go back to rich text, I sometimes forget to click 
>the 'plain text' button when sending emails to IBM-MAIN. Because this is a 
>pain, I've just reported it to Microsoft and they've asked me to send them an 
>example of what people receive. So, if anyone is reading this message and the 
>formatting doesn't look 'right', would you mind sending it back to me so I can 
>forward it to Microsoft?
> 
>Just so you know what the formatting 'should' look like, I manually entered 
>the following:
> 
>This is on a line all by itself.
>   This is on a line all by itself, and indented 3 spaces.
>      Same as above but indented 6 spaces.
>   Once again, but only indented 3 spaces.
>Not indented.
> 
>The paragraph below is identical to the paragraph above, except that I pasted 
>it from a mainframe session (just in case it makes any difference):
> 
>This is on a line all by itself.                              This is on a 
>line all by itself, and indented 3 spaces.       Same as above but indented 6 
>spaces.                    Once again, but only indented 3 spaces.             
>    Not indented.                                               
> 
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