"Jürgen Exner" wrote in message
...
| C J Campbell wrote:
| "Peter Duniho" wrote in message
| [...]
| He shouldn't have used HTML (nor should anyone be posting to a
| newsgroup like this one using HTML
|
| OTOH, what kind of benighted troglodyte still uses a newsreader that
| cannot properly interpret HTML?
|
| Does it matter? Usenet is a text-only medium and has always been.
| Many gateways automatically block any non-text article or articles with
| attachments (unless they are posted in one of the *.binary.* NGs). And I
for
| one am glad they do.
|
| If font and layout are more important to you than content, then you are
| welcome to go to some web board. But _PLEASE_ leave Usenet the way it is.
|

I have no plans to change Usenet. But you have to realize that text only
news readers will one day be as obsolescent as the buggy whip and the
Teletype. Neither you nor I will be able to stop it.