From: John Beckett 

Gary Britt  wrote in message
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> Are people not able to read my messages (or some of them anyway) if I
> post in html only?

Using the Agent newsreader, I see an html message as an Agent icon that I
can double-click to open as html if I want. So, I have been skipping your
messages for a few days, not because I'm too lazy to double-click or too
cheap to use a reader that will render html, but because I do not want all
the clever effects that are possible in html, including many effects that
are actually bugs and can do who-knows-what.

Html is a potential security hazard, although I don't recall ever hearing
about an html exploit in a newsgroup message, other than tracking via
images.

When you receive a message, the only secure format these days is plain
text. Html, pdf, xls, doc all have issues. Bear in mind that it would be
easy for someone to post messages claiming to come from any of us here.

John

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