Bug in WWW list archives

[Martin von Loewis]

> There seems, however, to be an easy solution: Escape all '<'s and '>'s
> and whoever is interested in the code can simple cut and paste it from
> Netscape, XEmacs, or use `lynx -dump`.
> 
> 
> OTOH I _must_ be missing something, the solution cannot be that easy,
> can it?

Cutting and pasting from Netscape/Emacs/Internet explorer might not be
that easy: Are you sure that tabulators, carriage-returns, html tags
in string literals etc are preserved?

IMHO, there is just no way to guarantee that the posted message
survives unmodified if you allow your Web browser to format it.

Martin