[SJAAboard] January 19,2008 - Draft Meeting Minutes

[Gary Mitchell]

Rob Hawley (SJAA) wrote:
>>Straight text is even more efficient.  ;)
> 
> 
> Tables in straight text are difficult to make and suffer from poor
> readability.  If we could publish HTML that would be the solution, but our
> mail list processor seems to conspire against that.

If you must have data in a table format, tabs and spaces will arrange
the text in columns.  If you're worried about tabs being interpreted
differently on each machine, use only spaces.  All we need to do then
is just view it in a non-proportional font.  Any mail reader should be
able to do that.

Gary