Posted by Ian Gregory on 11/16/73 11:36

On 2006-01-04, NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Just because you see your post formatted nicely with
empasis etc does not mean that anyone else does. Most
of us just see a mess. From the primer regularly posted
to news.announce.newusers:

> Try to keep your text in a generic format. Many
> (if not most) of the people reading Usenet do so
> from 80 column terminals or from workstations with
> 80 column terminal windows. Try to keep your lines
> of text to less than 80 characters for optimal
> readability. If people quote part of your article
> in a followup, short lines will probably show up
> better, too.

Since you have only just realised what top posting is
then you are clearly uninformed, but now that people
are taking the trouble to enlighten you, that excuse
is no longer available.

Ian

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Ian Gregory
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