Both Netscape Composer and Word can convert to HTML automatically. You type, as in a word processor, and save to the desktop or someplace as (filename.html). Open it in a browser (IE or NS), view source and select and copy the actual content, now HTML formatted. Don't copy the page head stuff -- just from the first line you typed tothe end of your last line.

Then go over to the Mudcat thread of interest and hit Paste. Bingo -- fully formatted HTML in a thread without typing any containers or other html commands.

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