root wrote:
So I'm going to poll the players and watchers: Upon first seeing Peekee's message, were you able to understand it within a reasonable amount of effort? If so, was a knowledge of HTML required?
Yes. No, Thunderbird automatically Did The Right Thing (tm). I'm generally familiar with the hex values of ASCII letters, punctuation, and the space, so even without any hints that HTML was involved, I could have translated it without undue effort: 49 20 52 65 67 69 73 74 65 72 20 61 (etc.) I R e g i s t e r a