"Mike Barnes" wrote in message
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"dennis@home" :


"Adrian C" wrote in message news:9ulvvsFrmkU1@mid.
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I've often thought that inside a company, that a local newsgroup
server would be of some use as a collaborative tool, rather than
group emails. I'd readily implement one without a moments thought.

We did have one.
However the idiots that put it in decided that as it was "usenet" it
should be plaintext based.
this is a bit stupid when HTML postings actually work far better with a
modern reader rather than the antiquated stuff real usenet insists on
because of its traditions.

I'm not so sure about that. I correspond with people who use HTML e-mail
and they find it hard to get to grips with the Usenet style of quoting.

In html each paragraph is tagged and the readers can identify the author.
Even OE could resize them to match its window size and colour them to match
the author.
A bit like quotefix does.


It didn't stay plain text for long as it was somewhat difficult to
include diagrams and the such in plain text.

But surely you could have plain text with inline graphics, as in e-mail?

But by the time you have added tags and mime types, etc. is it really plain
text any more?