The Eudora Email Client Source Code (opens in new tab)

Using Chrome on Android 8.1 I can zoom, which helps. But much more significantly a helpful "Show Simplified View" button pops up. Pressing that dramatically improves the usability of the page.

On Firefox try View > Page Style > No Style.

Oh yeah, I remember that! I think they called it "MoodWatch" or something. If I recall right, it gave a live measurement of the composition, so you didn't even have to send an email to play with it. It had a scale of one to three or five peppers or something like that. I remember playing with it and trying to figure out what kind of language warranted the largest number of peppers.

I do miss that functionality. And it could probably be better implemented today. I think the original feature just checked for a specific set of words and phrases in a blacklist. These days one could probably make a plugin that reasoned about the tone of the content, not just on word choice but also on sentence structure.

The nice thing about this function was that it was local -- it didn't transmit your thoughts to some outside entity for evaluation. Can't remember if you could tweak the criteria by which it calculated the peppers but whatever, this is the essence of having control over your technology.

That is awesome! I wish everything that spat out a proprietary backup file format came with a self executable viewer.