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I normally send e-mail as plain text.  It’s smaller, satisfies all of my formatting needs when composing messages, and avoids dancing crap, goofy fonts and eye watering colors.  However, once in a while I have to forward something that uses HTML formatting or reply to something that already contains formatting that I don’t want to [...]

I use the open source instant messaging client Pidgin (formerly Gaim).  It’s a great program that allows me to consolidate all of my instant messaging accounts (except Skype) into one interface. Recently I started getting the error “Pidgin received unexpected response from AIM/ICQ”. It only happened intermittently, but it’s a pain, as I have accounts [...]