I'm suggesting that .FO RAGGED become the default at some future time. Justified text is no longer useful, imho.  Most of the programs I use to view e-mail don't used fixed-width fonts, so the text doesn't appear to be justified anyway.

Jacob Haller said that "formatting commands don't generally work in MSG_...-type templates" and these are the particular ones that I would like to fix.

At 11:10 AM -0400 7/14/06, Nathan Brindle wrote
>Since 1.8-2002a (14.1), the .FO RAGGED dot command has been available for template forms...I'm not sure if that solves this specific case, though, I haven't had a chance to look through the templates.
>
>(Perhaps contrary to popular belief, I do not carry DEFAULT MAILTPL in my head...not enough RAM cache :), and more ECC errors the older I get...).
>
>Nathan
>
>At 10:39 AM 7/14/2006 -0400, Bill Verity wrote:
>>I am finding that justified text in listserv messages is causing me a lot of problems.  I try to write filters to scan for messages and would rather not have to use regular expressions to get around the multiple spaces.  I'd like to suggest that we turn off justification for all listserv messages.
>>
>>For example, in the following text, I'd like to search for the string "For security reasons" and discard the mail, but justification makes this awkward.
>>
>>>For  security  reasons, the  INDLRN135  list  has  been configured  to  request
>>>positive confirmation of messages posted to the list. You must now confirm that
>>>the enclosed  message did  originate from you.  To do so,  simply reply  to the
>>>present message and type "OK" (without the quotes) in the text of your message,
>>>or click on  the link below. If this  does not work, or if the  message did NOT
>> >originate from you, contact the list owner for assistance.
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