Ron Parker wrote:

> >  Or those who, for one reason or other, don't like to use a html browser to
> >read the news (like me).

My 2 cents :
To be frank, this limitation would be logical it if this were, say, a newsgroup
about rural farming in tropical countries where the users are likely to have
limited computer  resources. But this NG is dedicated to computer graphics, and
used by people who have up-to-date configurations, if only to run CG software and
Internet connections able to download binaries. I've also noticed that the people
who seem to have trouble with HTML postings are also rather advanced computer
users, which doesn't make sense... When I have trouble reading a file because of
a new popular format, I search for the latest version or patch that supports it
and always find it. This what I did when I started receiving HTML-coded e-mails.
Is that really impossible for HTML post reading, even without using Netscape ? Or
is there something sentimental about using non-HTML supporting newsreaders ?
What annoys me is not actually the ban on HTML posting itself (which I don't find
very useful, though it could come handy sometimes), but the fact that new users
here get flamed for this the first time they post, when sometimes they don't even
know they're doing HTML posts because it's the default mode in popular
newsreaders or email programs. This is not a "courteous" way to welcome people,
IMHO.
For the record, the policy n the French pov group is to allow HTML posting and we
haven't had any complaints so far, except the occasional joke on the occasional
ugly background or HTML mess, which is still better than flaming newbies for
something they're not guilty of, and starting threads about it.

G.

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