Anybody have problem with Mail not wanting to increase font size (YahooGroup HTML format emails)?

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On Feb 23, 2008, at 1:00 PM, macosx-talk-request at omnigroup.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:41:57 -0500
> From: Jim Witte <jswitte at bloomington.in.us>

>    Does anyone else have a problem that Mail (System 10.4.10 Intel,
> Mail 2.1.1 (752.3)) doesn't want to increase the font font size of
> some HTML messages?  I'm working with messages from a YahooGroups
> list, and the behavior seems quite unpredictable - sometimes it will
> increase on one message but not another, sometimes it seems to have a
> "maxium font size" boyond which it won't go, sometimes it will
> increase the font size, but then when I switch to a different message
> (same mailbox), it just refuses to increase anymore?  Without a
> consistent pattern, I can't file a bug report

Not just yes, but hell, yes.

Even worse is the following behavior with HTML messages from Yahoo  
newsgroups:  the lines extend far beyond the right margin and are not  
affected by window resizing or font size alterations (which often  
don't work anyway, as you note).  It is true in both the preview and  
full windows.  The only way to read this mail reasonably is to hit  
the reply button, whereupon it is reformatted as ASCII and now fits  
the window.

(This introduces another malevolent side-effect -- when you are done  
reading the message and reach up to hit the Delete icon, you are  
actually hitting the Send icon, and you send a reply back to the  
mailing list with no new content, making you look like an utter  
idiot.  So I have taken to deleting the To address immediately after  
hitting the reply button, to prevent my muscle memory from making  
this error.)
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