Formatting newsgroup posts

[Anonymous]

hey, check it out (if you use the web to view the newsgroup)

Here's a H1 heading

hi

hi

this is only a test

[Anonymous]

the web post seems to strip table html elements, but other common elements seem to slip through fine. now, let's try some javascript....

btw, is this by design?

[Anonymous]

However we on the newsreader side see the HTML tags...

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wrote in message news:4830292@discussion.autodesk.com...
hey, check it out (if you use the web to view the newsgroup)

Here's a H1 heading

hi

hi

this is only a test

[Anonymous]

Josh_Petitt <> writes:

> hey, check it out (if you use the web to view the newsgroup)
>
>

Here's a H1 heading

>
>
>
>
>

hi

hi

>
> this is only a test

Please, don't go there. It looks quite ugly here. HTML is not HTML
if it is not declared in the mimetype of a message. And HTML for news
posts is inapropriate anyways.

Matthias

[Anonymous]

aw, a little Friday morning hacking never hurt nobody... but seriously folks, I came across the feature after typing in some greater-than and less-than symbols and the words didn't appear. I realized these weren't escaped (or replaced by > and <) and decided to play a bit...

[Anonymous]

Josh_Petitt <> writes:

> aw, a little Friday morning hacking never hurt nobody... but
> seriously folks, I came across the feature after typing in some
> greater-than and less-than symbols and the words didn't appear.

It's a bug than, not a feature.

Matthias