"HTML" Posting Tags, was Top-posting shenanigans

[John Lawson]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 dvcorbin at optonline.net wrote:

> Well lets give PDF a try, as the body of a message.....(scroll to end)
>
> %PDF-1.2
> %âãÏÓ

   Right, that's enough, we're all Rather Clever Chaps - so can we Stop 
This Shit Now????????????????????????????


  Some of us retro-types use ASCII-specific apparatus (me: Pine under a 
Unix shell account via telnet using VanDyke CRT in strict VT-100 mode on 
a Dell Latitude)

   And Yet Another Page of Gibberish (YAP-G) is not what I want to wade 
through / delete / mutter darkly about.

   Is there still a Topic for this maillist?   And yes yes yes I know: 
'cctalk' vs 'cctech' but come onnnnnnnnnn....!


Fred Cisin sent me an emergency bottle of 'Grump' and I just used a bit of 
it... hmmm... works fine!


John