I certainly empathise with a desire to have a standard for preformatted plain
text. Here's the first paragraph of something in a message sent to me recently.
It will probably look worse by the time you get it.
Peter
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CIA Frets About Russia's Y2K Readiness
By Rick T. Vannelli
June 30, 1999
The federal government's Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been
doing a lot of testifying in 1999 about
Russia's Year 2000 Computer
Problem. In January, it presented testimony
to the House Government
Management, Information and Technology
Subcommittee of the House
Government Reform and Oversight Committee.
This House
Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman Stephen
Horn, has been
monitoring the Y2K remediation progress of
government agencies
since 1996. At the January hearing, the CIA
warned that Russia was
one of the least prepared foreign countries.
Russian officials have
admitted that there is not enough time or
money to timely solve the Y2K
Problem. Since the country is already
dealing with economic problems,
food shortages and other difficult
challenges, the addition of
widespread computer failures in the winter
of 1999-2000 could create
"major humanitarian problems" for the country.
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