That's correct, HTML tags indicate line breaks and paragraphs, thus there is no 
need to encode that information into the message as single or double 
line-breaks.  The idea of using plain text in this way, however, while it may 
certainly work for clients which naturally wrap lines, does not for those which 
don't.  As I said, there is a standard for doing the thing properly (called 
format=flowed, which you may Google if you're motivated) but Apple and 
Microsoft intentionally ignore it.

I know for a fact that (at least some) Windows versions of Outlook and Outlook 
Express do the thing properly; I really can't understand why the Mac versions 
don't.  And of course format=flowed originated with Eudora, on the Mac.

Of the textmode clients, only alpine has a workaround for this breakage; mutt 
doesn't, and neither do most newsreaders.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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