At the moment an intended sequence of spaces is lost in the website, but not in outgoing emails or in the text box where someone pastes/types his code.

I agree that the [code] tags are the best way to do things, however people coming to the website new are not going to use them. Education takes time and if there is a steady turnover in subscribers then education doesn't work. We don't want a situation where the l33t team knows the best way to do things and blasts any hapless newbie that wanders into the forum and does the wrong thing. Not that this is likely to happen, just that if there is a significant amount of education that needs to take place before people can use the website to its fullest extent the situation is going to be less than ideal. The learning curve should not be too steep.

regards
David Cameron