Occasionally I find that I'd like to copy an essay or article from elsewhere on the web and post it to this forum. But in the past, after I would submit it (I think it happened at least once here and at least once at the old TB2K, but I'm kinda foggy on the details now), once in a while the paragraphs ran together and the thing turned out a mess. I think it gets even worse if there are lists involved. In any case, because of this I've been kind of reluctant to post things like that here.

Today, for example, I found an interesting essay on Self-Defense and Gun Control that I posted at EZ and that I'd like to post here as well.

Any hints as to what I might have been doing wrong? Or should I just give it a shot anyway, and hope for the best?

Thanks,

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 15, 2000

Answers

Eve,

I have had the same problem with stuff from Sightings. Apparently the lines are missing some sort of line-feed character. The only way I know to solve it is to laboriously hit Enter at each place where you want to start a new line or twice to skip a line and start a new paragraph.

Please do post the Self-Defense and Gun Control article.

-- Flash (flash@flash.hq), May 15, 2000.

Thanks, Flash. Ok...I'll give it a try.

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 15, 2000.

Eve: GO FOR IT...you only live once, but remember, we only allow ONE mistake.....LOL....

Ps., thanks for the website for the precious moments..I did order from Enesco for my grandbaby..

-- consumer (shh@aol.com), May 15, 2000.

Sheesh, you people are stupid.

Hit the return key 3 times to seperate paragraphs. I would teach you how to do it using html, but I'm afraid if you were too dumb to "get it" about Y2k, you will never get any kind of programming language either.

-- (SpaceCases @re .here), May 15, 2000.

SpaceCases,

You know, someone would have to explain precisely the same instruction to Einstein as well...:)

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 15, 2000.

consumer, as soon as I read Flash's post (although yours would certainly have done the trick, but it wasn't up yet) my courage and determination welled up in me...and oh yeah...my patriotism too...and I posted it.

And you mean you ordered a Precious Moment already?? Way cool! (can I say that at my age?):)

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 15, 2000.

You know, someone would have to explain precisely the same instruction to Einstein as well...

You are wrong and a weak, stupid female. Einstein would have figured it out himself. YOU could have gone out on the internet and found out for yourself if you weren't so lame. Sheesh, this place is FULL of spacecases. How can one site be so full of stupid people?

-- (SpacesCases @re .here), May 15, 2000.

SpaceCases,

You said,

[YOU could have gone out on the internet and found out for yourself]

Well...I just did -- and from you! :)

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 15, 2000.

Eve,

Do you know how to put in a paragraph break?

You use the "less than" symbol (uppercase comma) put in a "p" then use the "greater than" symbol (uppercase period). Do it once and copy it. Cut and paste your article and then scroll down the page and everywhere there is a new line in the article, paste the paragraph break. That will give you a new line here where there was one in the origional article. It's the fastet way and you don't have to make sure you hit return three times to creat a new line.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), May 15, 2000.

Touche. You join the ranks of the top five doomers and Irrational 1 loses his.

-- (SpaceCases @re .here), May 15, 2000.

Hmmm...SpaceCases seems to think he/she is on a doomer forum. Not as smart as you think you are idiot.

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), May 15, 2000.

Thanks so much, Cherri -- ya came through for me, girl.

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 15, 2000.

SpaceCases,

Although I appreciate, and am flattered by, your attention and your eagerness to promote me, I haven't been a doomer for about four months or more. And I'm not readily aware of anyone else on this forum who's one either.

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 15, 2000.

Eve,

Your welcome :o)

Space case? If you are so smart then why don't you know who was and who was not in the "Doomer" catagory before the rollover?

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), May 15, 2000.

SpaceCases,

I thought that we were going to have to wait until Wednesday to be graced by your omniscient intelligence.

We all stand in awe, as only someone as brilliant as you could have knowledge of both the Doppler effect AND HTML!

Tell us, all seeing one, when will you grace your minions with the answer to your great riddle?

-- fwiw (a@b.c), May 15, 2000.

SpaceCases,

Why don't you just bend over and stick a beer bottle up your ass! Do you eat with that same mouth too?

-- Hawk Fan (up@urs.asshole), May 15, 2000.

SpaceCases=Ron Swartz

-- (no@doubt.about it), May 15, 2000.

LOL Hawk Fan GOOOOODDDD ONE..

A beer bottle up the ol tushie, so tell me Space Case, all seeing/knowing wonder of our great forum....

HOW DID IT FEEL? *snicker

-- consumer (shh@aol.com), May 15, 2000.