On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 17:04:32 GMT, "FDR"
wrote in rec.gardens.edible:

HTML is plain text. Take a look at it.

Substitute "ASCII text" wherever the sender has said "plain text".

ASCII means "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". Emphasis on
the word "Standard". HTML is not standard, the text that is visible to you is
not "plain text" and is not visible to everyone. Don't blame us because the
designers of usenet did not want prettiness and oodles of excess bytes on their
system at the expense of clarity of communication and greatly increasing the
storage requirements on server.
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