John asks:

> I need to send a plain text email which contains data which is columnar in
>  nature. In order to preserve the columns I would like to ensure that the
>  message is read using fixed pitch font. What can I put in the email headers
>  to specify a fixed pitch font (e.g. Courier) regardless of what email
client
>  (within reason - Stan's steam powered reader excepted :-) is used to read
>  the message?

I'm reasonably certain that no such mechanism exists. The character set and
encoding mechanism can be specified in the relevant RFCs, but not the font.

Wirt Atmar

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