New richtext generation -- opinions?

Hello, ietf-822 folks.  As most of you know, I've been using a 
new version of Andrew that generates MIME-format messages.  
In the past, it has always generated either text/plain, if appropriate, or a 
complex structure consisting of a multipart/alternative at the top, plain text 
first, and a nested multipart/mixed structure after that, which might contain 
text/richtext and a number of other things.

Several of you have 
pointed out that this is fairly silly in the case where the 
message is really just text/richtext, an important special case.  I'm now 
testing a new version of Andrew in which that case is indeed handled 
specially.  While I was at it, I cleaned up the richtext generation in a few 
other ways.  This message is a result of that effort.  I'd be grateful for any 
comments on how the richtext here looks, both to those of you using 
MIME-compliant readers and those of you reading the raw richtext.

The 
rest of this message is content-free, but is here to illustrate some 
formatting stuff.  -- Nathaniel

This is some verse
And I could do worse
Than to center it well
and be glad you can't smell

This s an example of an excerpt:
> Excerpts from mail: 28-Jan-92 Re: Metamail: Multimedia 
> Ma.. Matti Aarnio(_at_)nic(_dot_)funet(_dot_)f (870)


> Just 
> to inform you and maybe to put in some "Other-sites-carrying-this"-file:

> The  ftp.funet.fi  has a copy of it in  
> /pub/unix/mail/metamail/-
> directory (with CWD -time 
> pointer towards the Thumper.)

> Out primary charter 
> is to be archive site for Finland, but also the rest
> of 
> the Nordic countries users have certain priviledges when using our server.

And here's the text part of my signature file:

----------------------------------------------------------------
Nathaniel S. Borenstein <nsb(_at_)thumper(_dot_)bellcore(_dot_)com>
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Communications Research
Office: Bellcore Room MRE 2D-296, 445 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07962-1910
Work phone: (201) 829-4270 [(201) TAX-GAS-0] Work FAX: (201) 829-5963
Home: 25 Washington Ave., Morristown, NJ 07960, (201) 993-8586

> "I place economy among the first and most important 
> virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.  To preserve 
> our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.  If 
> we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our 
> necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements.  If we 
> can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the 
> pretense of caring for them, they will be happy."

-- Thomas Jefferson