Re: do NOT, EVER, post messages containing HTML (was: "City Rail Security Guards")

["John" <johnst@aics.net.au>]

C. Dewick <craigd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote in message
7nqg9a$1tv$1@lios.apana.org.au">news:7nqg9a$1tv$1@lios.apana.org.au...
> In <7nmo9t$sps$1@toto.tig.com.au> "Peter Perkins" <peterp@tig.com.au>
writes:
>
> >This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
> And the second half of it was a repeat of the first half, but in damn
HTML!
> grrrr.. It's about time I reminded everyone about *NOT* posting messages
> with HTML content in newsgroups...
>
> Most of us don't look kindly on people who post messages to this newsgroup
> when the whole message is *repeated at the end* in bloody HTML! Do NOT
EVER
> post news articles containing copies of the text in HTML please.
>
> It makes messages twice as large, harder to read, and very annoying to the
> majority of people who read news using text-based newsreaders. HTML makes
> normal text impossible to read...
>
> If you want to post to newsgroups, which are a *text-based* medium, do
*NOT*
> post messages containing copies of the actual text appended at the end in
> HTML. Most of us will ignore any HTML content.
>
> Related to this, either configure your software properly so it doesn't
> include HTML in news articles, or get different software which works
> properly and doesn't irritate us with stuff we can't read outside of a
> web-browser's news reading window.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig.
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Yes Sir, sorry Sir!