On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Jima wrote:

>  Congratulations, sir; you found a niche where HTML email performs
> really well: tabular data.  Yes, I know you/your client also included a
> plaintext version with a fixed-font "table," but it ends up wide enough
> that it's problematic.
>  I just saw the table and remembered the last discussion to that effect.


Right, but it didn't align well in Firefox, for some reason.  I could 
almost read it.  This can be done in ASCII too -- we can align columns. 
I suggest this perl script:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/align/

I would also suggest that we transpose wide tables to make them narrow 
tables -- that table had only two rows.

Mike