Re: HTML Posting

[mk@netstra.com.au (Michael Kurkowski)]

gnome412@hotmail.com (Gnome 412) wrote in
<vSyQ4.13162$PL4.314090@ozemail.com.au>: 

>Serious question from Internet beginner (who just committed html-posting
>to this ng) ...
>What is the best way to post tabulated info (like timetables) to a
>newsgroup?

Two ways of achieving this. 

1) Most *good* newsreaders have the option to go between variable and fixed 
width fonts. Just tell the readers you are posting a table and they should 
turn fixed width fonts on for that given post. Even still, if you look at 
it carefully enough, you can work out where the tabs are.

2) Write the table into a WWW page, and post the URL (as DP mentioned).

BTW, I do respect the fact that Hubert did put [html posting] in the 
subject, but that still borders on the fine line of netiquette, since 
Usenet is primarily designed not for HTML postings, but rather plain text. 
Plain text is readable by everyone, HTML isn't. 

While on this subject, Binaries are subject to the same condition, however 
there are newsgroups that exist for binary files, generally with the word 
"binaries" within the group name. This however is still not the preferred 
method of binary transport for a number of reasons which have been gone 
into before. I bring this up, because of the small 'incident' we had during 
the week where a person posted a binary file.

When I was in Sydney a couple of months ago, I only had a laptop and a 
mobile connection. It took long enough to download this newsgroup as clear 
text. Imagine if everyone posted binaries and HTML, it would take 5 times 
as long to download. I for one, am not the only person who has downloaded 
this newsgroup via a mobile connection, btw.

Regards

Michael