I copied and pasted Rita's text into both a plain text doc and an e-mail (that I sent to myself), and the doc opened as text in Safari, and the e-mail displayed as text both in Mail.app (when I received it) and on my Verizon e-mail page.
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire