From: Brian Hall 

Rich wrote:

>  I use HTML for some of the same reasons that the web is primarily HTML.
>  It's expressive.  I used it to indent the quoted text in my first
>  message.

This is not the web. Plain text is expressive if you say what you mean.
HTML decorations add nothing to the discussion.

        I can indent too and I didn't need to use HTML to do it. There is a key
        on most keyboard labeled "Tab" that can be used to indent
plain text.

My newsreader inserts a little symbol called a "greater than
sign" to denote the quoted text. It seems to work well without adding
bloat.

>  Are you having problems because your newsreader, KNode, is
>  not standards compliant and displays the raw text of the message
>  instead of just the text part?

I have it set to display the plain text part and show anything else as an
attachment. Your posts do not word wrap correctly and I have to scroll to
the right to read them. I only have a problem with messages from people who
use HTML. The majority of people here are intelligent enough to realize
that plain text is more efficient.

>  In the messages you post KNode claims
>  to be MIME compliant.  Maybe it doesn't know how to display the more
>  expressive HTML part.

MIME compliant means it can decode/uncompress MIME compressed data and
produce/encode MIME compressed data for an attached binary, not that it
will surround my text with a bunch of useless markup.

Brian

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