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No, the trouble is that when they do (font color=red) they don't do the (/font) afterwards.
Basically, the former tells the browser "start displaying text in red". The latter tells the browser to "stop displaying text in red". If you leave that one out, the browser doesn't know when to stop showing red text.
Usually, when another colour comes along, the text simply changes to that one. However, in some cases, on some browsers, the message is so confusing it starts doing strange things like inventing colours of its own and applying those throughout the page, or failing to show the page whatsoever.
Since there is no telling when that will happen and when it won't, it's best and safest to always simply add the (/font) to the end of each and every coloured section.
So, just like a (b) and a (/b) go together, so too do a (font color="something") and a (/font). Larry's post was simply to say, don't forget the latter.
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