Re: [Haskell-cafe] code in postings mangled?

Why is code in postings so often mangled:

Seems it is only the linebreaks. Some programs on Windows, including TextEdit and likely your mail client, don't consider a newline '\n' character to be a line break, since Windows terminates lines by "\r\n". Then OS X has '\r' line terminators, which again might not be considered a linebreak on some systems. I remember all kinds of stupid things arising from this, including version control systems flagging every line as changed when it was only the line breaks. I read this list as digest, so I can not verify using the particular raw email you quoted. Can someone else check this? Regards, Olaf