Posted by Paul Sture on 11/16/91 11:36

Justin wrote:
> 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?

Of course it does _if_ set up properly:

From: NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923)

Same version number as I'm using here, except I'm running it on OS X.

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