"HTML" Posting Tags, was Top-posting shenanigans

[Jules Richardson]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 12:06 -0700, woodelf wrote:
> dvcorbin at optonline.net wrote:
> 
> >While HTML may not be the "best", plain ASCII text IS very limiting. 
> If there is a suggestion for another format that is as widely readable 
> [i.e. people have readers installed] I would like to hear about it....
> >  
> >
> I want to read MAIL not have other JUNK with my mail.

The one that *really* drives me nuts is people who, rather than using an
ASCII smiley, use a goddam image of a smiley linked from a website -
argh! 

ASCII isn't limited at all if people do make use of smileys and such as
*...* for emphasis (of course carefully-composed text doesn't need any
of that at all to convey meaning either, but it does help somewhat for
quick replies IMHO)