On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:47:14 GMT, "Dave" wrote:

Thank you for that ... and I gather some get equally irritated about
people sending HTML.

of course. i prefer the nice safe plain text, but i guess not everyone sees
it that way.

Hi All,

Not everyone sees in HTML either, and getting drenched by all of those
superfluous mark up script tags doesn't add to the conversation.

Outlook has a horrible reputation for launching insecure processes and
for spreading virus through marked up pages - no one knows the risk
offered by the content of any post until they open it. I use Agent
which has a safe HTML renderer, but I still don't need someone's
infected posting sitting in the thread.

The addition of charts, graphs and pictures could be put to good use
here. It "might" even bring sense to contrary current flow of
gaussian vector particels. In that sense, HTML would be a virtue;
however that isn't the convention of an already established text-based
group. (And the counter graphics of contrary current flow "might"
bring a blush to the easily offended.)

But if we went fully marked-up - what new vistas for rhetorical
exploration would be found there! ....and it still wouldn't solve
anything.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC