John (in K), I think we are talking entirely at cross purposes. Let me repharse what I was talking about as an "export to HTML" function. Perhaps you are with me now.

I'm not with you at all with your last paragraph. If you are referring to whether or not the feature should be added to Mudcat, please read my first post in this thread.

As I indicated in my previous post, as far as I'm concerned the decision of whether it should be added to Mudcat has been answered and that issue is dead. That said and now I think you are re-raising that issue at least as a principle with me, FWIW, I disagree with your reasoning.

Every system I use that allows editing has a preview and a means of getting assistance from a mod/clone. On these systems, it has been judged the extra facility is useful and it is used, even by careful posters who proof read. etc.

For the record, as it happens my own judgement call here would be not to have an edit button here but that would be based on the nature of certain threads and posters at Mudcat - I could only see it as becoming the basis of other rows - you changed it -it said that, no it said that, etc. followed by screeds of debate as to where or not somone should have the edit button removed, whther it was a good idea, etc.

In other words, it's not that the idea need be a bad one in principle as some suggest but that I believe it's value is very much dependant on the maturity of the board.