Posted by Justin on 11/16/02 11:36

NRen2k5 wrote on [Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:24:40 -0500]:
> Justin wrote:
>> Why do you want to add HTML to a post? There's no reason for it.
>
> Two reasons that I can recall right now:
> - To add emphasis to what I'm writing.
> - To maintain formatting in quotes from web pages.
>
> Without HTML, I have to type like a borg and screw around to make it
> look right.
>
> With HTML, typing up my message - with emphasis added, and proper quotes
> - is just as easy as in any word processor made in the last twenty years.

Ah, so you're saying that wordperfect 5, wordstar and all those
wonderful old wordprocessors made under 20 years ago were easier than
the simple formatting you have included above?

Your newsreader doesn't have a paste as quote function for including
quotes from webpages?

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