On Friday 15 Mar 2013 17:36:48 Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > > From the headers of his email:
> > > 
> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros
> > > References: <51418728.7020406@gmail.com>
> > > In-Reply-To: <51418728.7020406@gmail.com>
> > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > > 
> > > It's perfectly compliant. You may want to correct your mail client to
> > > understand HTML.
> > > 
> > > (Admittedly, it's unusual to see email clients send *only* text/html,
> > > rather than a multipart message with two different encodings.)
> > 
> > ROFL. It's called "me wrestling with thunderbird to try to remove html
> > formatting but failing".
> 
> Compulsory html annoys me on Android (If only you could have proper
> programs like Nokias N9 had claws)
> 
> Claws would mean you needn't bother and still have html to text by
> default and can even enable html plugins if desired (right way around).


I understand that you can specify what sort of mail format you want to send 
per email recipient, including of course <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>, but I 
don't have T'bird installed to check:

  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_(Thunderbird)

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick