If you want to see what someone's post looked like before the forum's HTM effects wrecked the column alignment, you can click on the "Edit Post" link of their post.
It shouldn't let you save any changes (since you're not the right user). But it does let you get to the raw contents. Then you can select and copy those contents and paste them into a text editor (Windows Notepad) where they won't be as badly word wrapped.
I'm not sure how to make the forum respect multiple spaces. Failing that, you could always use ^H in notepad to reblace blank with _ and get something like:
