HTML in posts to the list

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In a message dated 1/7/01 10:56:33 AM, music.maker at gte.net writes:

<< What is the consensus here? >>

HTML in mailing list mail drives me crazy, like when someone is driving in 
front of you on the highway and they leave their turn signal on, mile after 
mile after mile.  It's even more annoying when the HTML is left in the middle 
of quoted material from a series of previous posts, especially if the poster 
quotes kilobyte upon kilobyte of multiply-nested quotes, only to reply "me 
too!", "LOL!", or something like that.

About 50% of the posts on the "HAMTECH" Hammond organ mailing list is contain 
extraneous HTML, which is possibly understandable, considering their 
anachronistic focus.  I suspect that some of them really are people who leave 
their turn signals on while hauling their B3's to and fro.  But people who 
are clever enough to build their own synthesizer are clever enough to post 
email without extraneous HTML tags, one would think.

Is it possible that those who post in HTML don't know that they are doing so? 
 Maybe because their newsreaders hide the HTML tags, so they never see them?  

Michael Bacich