> [don't know what to tell you about the formatting, it's not my fault]

Actually, message formatting varies depending on the email software chosen 
by the writer and its settings.  Most people have no more clue about that 
than they do about what happens under the hood of their car, but learning 
the software is not difficult and tuning it up is not a difficult or dirty 
as tuning a vehicle.

These days, the default setup seems to be "HTML", not "plain text" and it 
causes a lot of grief due to long line lengths, strange characters appearing 
in cut and paste material and and difficulty in delineating quotes.

For the utmost clarity and universality, "plain text" is recommended in 
outgoing messages, however most people do not know how to set up their 
software to achieve that, even though it is available in settings or the 
format menu.

Personally, I set my client to create all email as plain text by default and 
only call up the HTML setting when sending pictures or pasting in material 
copied from a web page.

So, the formatting *is* under one's control.

Then, again, for posting, reading and searching there is the web interface 
to this list at http://www.BEE-L.org

Posts made from there are formatted by the server and the user has no 
control.

For that matter folks, if you never have seen the web interface, visit 
http://www.BEE-L.org and look around. 

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