MIME Email as Seen by Text Reader, & Text Email Compared to HTML Email in HTML Capable Reader

Here is a simple email message as it might look after having been composed in pure text mode using an HTML capable email program:

Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:08:27 -0500
From: "MaxFB" 
Subject: (rx7-fb) Fender Flares - where to find them

I'm looking for these fender flares and cost.

http://www.rx-7.org/1stgen/flares.htm

any help would be appreciated

    Thanks

        Max7

Here is the same message as it would look reading with a pure text email program after having been composed using HTML formatting:


Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:08:27 -0500
From: "MaxFB" <MaxFB@sendersemaildomain.com>
Subject: (rx7-fb) Fender Flares - where to find them

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" =
http-equiv=3DContent-Type>
<META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I'm looking for these fender flares and =

cost.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20
href=3D"http://www.rx-7.org/1stgen/flares.htm">http://www.rx-7.org/1stgen=
/flares.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>any help would be =
appreciated</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>    Thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>       =20
Max7</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>

Here is a portion of an 800 X 600 screen shot showing a simple pure text email message displayed by a Netscape 3 email reader:

Here is a portion of an 800 X 600 screen shot showing a similar content length HTML email message displayed by the same Netscape 3 email reader:

Note that the font size here is approximately half that of the preceding pure text message. This is only indirectly due to the choice of Netscape font size. The primary reason is this portion of of the HTML code you can see in the top screenshot on this page:
<FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>
Standard HTML font size is 3, but you can see above the author of the email has specified the smaller font size 2.
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