🚀 go-pugleaf

Before I start, the reader should note that I have not stooped as low as
our dear friend Liu, and have followed this up to bne.general only.

I'm sorry, mate, but I'm with JCM with this one.  HTML-formatted e-mail
and news _is_ annoying, and alienates the 90% of net users people who
don't use HTML-capable newsreaders.

I'm sure that those 90% of net users would agree with me.  How about _you_
follow the accepted practice, and leave the HTML tags out of your posts.
You are being very arrogant by assuming that people actually _use_ Outlook
Express and it's ilk.

It also smacks of arrogace that you seem to think that people want to read
that commercial dreck that you are spewing forth onto the bne.* and uq.*
newsgroups.  I can just see your reasoning: "I, Liu, am A University Of
Queensland Student, therefore I have the right to jam my commercial spam
wherever I please".

Spam?  No thankyou.

- regards,

Ben Fowler.

On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Liu wrote:

> Try using a html capable newsreader, like Outlook Express if you are that concerned.
> 
> Also, you have a choice not to read the post.  As for the suggestion that this is a commercial
> post... I have contacted the UQ newsgroup administrator about this post and included a copy of
> the post and am awaiting his reply.  Also, I have asked him about whether html format posts are
> allowed, if not allowed I will gladly cancel the posts myself.  If allowed, they stay and you
> can expect more to come.
> 
> What the post said about UQ Markets is that it is a FREE service, created, run and maintained
> by me, a student of UQ, St Lucia..  I don't get any money or other benefit apart from helping
> out fellow UQ Students.
> 
> :Is it just me, or is there anybody else out there who is tired of seeing
> :the many _repeated_ newsmesgs on the same subject with bletcherous html
> :additions? It also seems to me that the emails from luig@usa.net are
> :increasingly of a commercial nature which is explicitly prohibited by the
> :charter of the uq.* groups.

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