Evidently you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
  Firstly, you have the typical attitude of a windows nerd.
  If you say to a windows nerd "a command line shell is very handy" what he
actually reads is "GUIs suck, the command line is much better than any GUI
in everything and everyone should get rid of all graphic interfaces and use
only text-based command line interpreters".
  If you say to a windows nerd "you should also take into consideration
text-based html browsers when you make a html web page" what he actually
reads is "you have to include only text in your pages, no pictures, no
frames, not even colors, no any other thing but only text".
  If you say to windows nerd "UNIX is a very good operating system" they
only see an antisocial geek sitting in a dark corner using a VT100-type
text terminal typing cryptical commands and using programs from the early
60's (everything in text mode, of course).
  An of course, if you say to a windows nerd "stop sending HTML to the news"
what they read is "stop using netscape".
  As a typical windows nerd, you even talked about mIRC as if it was the
only IRC-client out there.
  As a typical windows nerd, you confuse program development with standards
development. You think that if program X (for windows, of course) has a new
feature, that's the new standard and everyone should change to that.
  As a typical windows nerd, you suppose that people who is not using the
same programs as you are not using the latest versions and state-of-art
programs.
  As a typical windows nerd, you are completely unable to understand that
the only thing you have to do to stop sending html is to uncheck one option
in netscape and that this will not affect news reading in any way.
  As a typical windows nerd you suppose that everyone can and like to use
netscape as a news reader. It's true that almost everybody can use it, but
it isn't true that everyobdy likes it.
  Netscape takes a lot of resources (it really is a memory and cpu hog), it
takes a very long time to start an its news reader is in some aspects very
limited. Some people want to control in a more precise way what articles
they want to read and in which way.
  "Upgrading", as you call it, from an efficient real news reader to
netscape would make life a pain to those people. They will loose lots of
features they were using. It would actually be a downgrade.
  The fact that you can send html documents to the news with netscape doesn't
make it a standard. If I started to send eg. tex-documents or postscript
documents, who would read that? The fact that you can do something doesn't
mean that everyone is doing the same thing and even less that it's a
standard.

  And all the problem is that one checkbox which these windows nerds are
completely unable to uncheck.
  Luckily enough those windows nerds constitute a very little percent of
the net users (at least here).

: PS: I posted this in plain text format for a reason.. so you wouldn't skip
: it just because it's html.

  Why should you send anything in html here? I can't think of any reason.
  Ah... But windows nerds don't need reasons.

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