maybe it's time I switched my email client

[waider]

An email as it was displayed to me just now:

This is a text part of the message.

It is shown for the users of old-style e-mail clients

Old-style. Back in the days before email-borne virii, full-colour pornographic junk, and OCR-defeating stock-dump scams. Bring back the good old days, I say!

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[wisn.livejournal.com]

I recognize that as placeholder text in some tutorial about how multipart email works. Looks like somebody copied-and-pasted the example and never got around to writing the chunk of code/script that inserts the text stripped of formatting from the HTML segment.