>Or you can introduce new tags for auto-coloring and leave pre tags the way, they were originally.

Aren't you guys over exagarating just a bit? So a couple of old messages are broken. So what, it will always happen due to the evolving nature of the UT. Like Web Services, if you wanted to create an offline reader, and people have put HTML in their posts, they don't work quite right when read as text.

Update your FAQ if you're so ashamed of pointing people to it. Sheesh.