From: "Robert Comer" 

>Should I switch back to
> text only newsgroup postings?

Please do, it's the defacto standard for USENET and FIDONET.  Some users
get downright hostile if it's not text.

It's also a more secure...  (no hidden gotcha's.)

--
Bob Comer





"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4558aade$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> Hi Ellen,
>
> Just saw this message and John's.  I like the ability to format messages
> with different effects that aren't possible in plain text, but from your
> quoteback below it looks like the html is coming through pretty crappy
> on some newsreaders setup to read text only.  Should I switch back to
> text only newsgroup postings?
>
> Gary
>
> Ellen K. wrote:
>> Why are you posting in html here?
>>
>> On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:09:01 -0500, Gary Britt
>>  wrote in message
:
>>
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>>> 
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>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't think he's talking about a new line soft return (i.e. the
>>> shift-enter type).  You can search for that kind of return in
>>> Word. 
>>> He's talking about where Word auto-flows the text without a any kind of
>>> return.  At least that was my understanding.
>>> 
>>> Gary
>>> 
>>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>> 

>>>  It's a reach but Openoffice can
supposedly convert soft
>>> returns to hard
>>> returns. OO is a free dl. Make a copy of your doc pass it through OO and
>>> see
>>> what happens
>>>
>>> >>
href="http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/12/finding_and_rep.html">
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/12/finding_and_rep.html;
>>> In the Find and Replace window, enter the symbol for what you want to
>>> search
>>> for, in the Find field. Here's a quick reference to the symbols to enter
>>> for
>>> what you're looking for.
>>>
>>>  a.. Regular carriage returns  are $
>>>  b.. Soft returns inserted with a Shift Return, are \n
>>>  c.. Just an empty paragraph, i.e. a carriage return but with no text on
>>> that line, is ^$
>>>  d.. Tabs are \t
>>> >>
href="http://www.openoffice.org/;">http://www.openoffice.org/http://www.openoffice.org/">http://www.openoffice.org/;
>>>
>>>
>>> "Monte Davis" >>
href="<monte.davis{at}verizon.net>">mailto:monte.davis{at}verizon.net"><monte.davis{at}verizon.net>
>>> wrote in message
>>> >>
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j77kojscp1m4h3t4r48{at}4ax.com...
>>>  
>>>  
>>>    Gary Britt >>
href="<glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com>">mailto:glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com"><glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com>

>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>    
>>>      Enter ^l  (that's an L) for
a manual line break (soft
>>> line return)
>>>      
>>>    
>>>    Maybe my terminology is wrong.
By "soft" line return I
>>> meant the
>>> line-end breaks that Word itself assigns -- those which would move
>>> automatically if the margins are changed.
>>>
>>> *Those* are the places I want nail down (with either a ^l or ^p,
>>> doesn't matter to the document's appearance). And *those* are the
>>> places where there is no search/replaceable special character...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Monte Davis
>>> >>
href="http://montedavis.livejournal.com<" target="new">http://montedavis.livejournal.com<">http://montedavis.livejournal.com">http://montedavis.livejournal.com<
/a>
>>>    
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