Montblack wrote:
Dave's posts are all over the place on my screen (OE 6.0). His are the only
ones that display this way, yet when I "Reply Group" they seem to clean
themselves up into a [more readable] fashion (above).

It's because he's using a tab at the beginning of each paragraph, like
he's writing a paper or something. =) Your reader is smart enough to
remove the whitespace when quoting it.