(* Use blockquote .....substantially easier to read. *)
Still not WYSIWYG. Do you really find that significantly harder to read? I personally see no problem with Pascal-style, but everybody's eyes are different. Besides, I got into the habit while trolling slashdot and others with anti-OO rhetoric :-) It might take a while to break the habit.
Blockquoting like that is too easy to mistype anyhow. A typo that may "work" in IE may not work in Netscape, for example. That is why I trended toward WYSIWYG ascii.