On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:50:15 GMT, "Jim Carter"
wrote in :

Sure Larry, but you're absolutely the first person to ask or even bring it
up. Does it mess up your newsreader somehow? How did you notice the format
when no one else has complained? I'd seriously like to know - I'm not being
a smartass here.... otherplaces, probably.

It is a long standing principle of Usenet, like the preference for
bottom-posting, that all messages are plane ASCII text. Coding your
articles in HTML serves no useful purpose, and only serves to increase
the size of articles needlessly. There's more information about this
specific topic he http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/ncaps.html

And general Usenet information is available he
http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqwe...inks.html#know
The newsgroup news.newusers.questions is specifically for newcomers to
newsgroups and the Internet in general. It is a forum in which they
can ask questions about newsgroups and the Internet and hopefully get
useful answers from other more experienced users.