Re: Mike Tyner? How do you post with underlines
- From: Scott Seidman <namdiesttocs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Aug 2005 12:30:19 GMT
<salmonegg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:BF3A4DF8.4F88%salmonegg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> On 8/30/05 7:58 AM, in article 43147432.A79ACF2A@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "The
> Real Bev" <bashley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> salmonegg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/28/05 11:10 AM, in article desug812jgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>> "crb" <anon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do you post with underlines
>>>
>>> Use HTML.
>>
>> DON'T USE HTML FOR POSTING. EVER.
>>
>> It takes up far more space than plain text on every single news
>> server in the entire world and that's rude as hell, especially since
>> usenet is regarded by many/most ISPs as an expensive and lightly-used
>> feature.
>>
>> If you want to use colors, fancy fonts, blinky happy faces and the
>> rest of that crap, find a private "forum" where such idiocy is
>> allowed, even ENCOURAGED.
>
> Sometimes, html works out well. For example, it is much easier to make
> some mathematical expressions look right using HTML. If you are trying
> to post things like chemical reactions, you can make things that look
> like subscripts instead of something that looks like Al2(SO4)2.
>
> Bill
>
Usenet is text only, by convention.
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