"sandi" > wrote in message
>
> I read it fine. It's the 90+ extra lines of crap that came with
> the funny. Does OE hide all that garbage?
>

Yes, just good looking text. OE does everything I ask it to do and it was
free.

MS started using HTML or Rich text in newsgroups, I believe. With dial up
and 30 baud modems it was important to conserve, but today, I don't think it
makes much difference aside from etiquette because not al readers can handle
the characters.