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[Thack]

At risk of being boring, if we had decent forum software we could do all this without having to type out arcane HTML commands. (Well, not the scrolling marquee, admittedly!)

[PeteF]

Well John L, as Scaly says, being able to insert line breaks, paragraphs etc. does make the message more readable.
Being able to insert pictures is an obvious advantage (worth a thousand words)
Having had to learn a bit of HTML code in order to do this on this message board, a few of us have, admittedly, got a bit carried away (showing off)
However, in our defence, we are all engineers to a greater or lesser extent on here so we just like to know how things work.