"HTML" Posting Tags, was Top-posting shenanigans

[dvcorbin at optonline.net]

>  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)

For *this* list I will agree that that is a valid point.

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

At least you are not so retro to be using an ASR-33 for checking your mail.
(I should have at least uuencoded the "gibberish" [actually an offer of a three day triple play ski pass for $50 that I have] so it not not do too many bad things if someone IS using hardcopy terminal to check e-mail.