According to Jeff Wisnia :
daniel peterman wrote:

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I'm just wondering, but not offended. I noticed there was this little
bit of HTML coding in your post:

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htmlbody bgcolor=darkcyanfont color=alicebluefont size=5font
effect=shadowblackfaceTill the Next Time/blackface/html

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And I wondered how it made it to my news client (Netscape 7.2) so that
it did its thing.

I thought that newsgroup processing somehow stripped off any HTML code.

Some news servers toss into the bit bucket anything with *any*
kind of attachments. (And yes, HTML *is* an attachment.)

Others (most) do not.

So -- what you see is a function of which news servers it has
had to pass through.

Those that toss are likely to toss the whole article, instead of
trying to clean it up.

This makes it better for anyone to make sure that their news
articles have *no* HTML in them, so they reach the maximum number of
possible readers.

And -- you are safer (from virus infections) using a newsreader
which does not even *understand* HTML, so it can't process it. HTLM
processing makes it possible to hide nasties.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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