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Adminnemooseus
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Message 138 of 198 (202907)
04-27-2005 3:17 AM
Reply to: Message 136 by Mr. Ex Nihilo
04-27-2005 12:34 AM


Message needs much reformatting!
Mr. Ex Nihilo - Welcome to .
For better or worse, that was a monster of a message. The one thing that stood out to me is that the message had a LOT of formatting problems, that makes for a painful reading experience.
Apparently you were doing "enters" at the end of your individual lines. Unless you are starting a new paragraph, such is a very bad thing, as it causes line breaks in the wrong places. Just type your paragraphs without using the "enter" key, and the line breaks will automaticly be put in the correct place. Please do "double enters" (as you have been doing), to put in a blank lines between the paragraphs.
Please go back and use the "edit" feature, to TRY clean up the formatting. Unfortunately, once the mess is made, it takes a lot of work to fix it. You can use the "Preview" button to check on the fixes you do, as you do them. Just don't forget to click on "Submit Now" when you are done editing.
In the future, you may wish to use a word processor to compose messages, especially large or complex ones. Also do saves of those messages as they are created. That way you will have a copy of the message if for some reason the message does not post correctly (and that sometimes does happen!).
Further messages with such massive formatting problems might well tend to cause "Cranky Moose Syndrome". You don't want to here be facing a cranky Moose.
Also, if you are replying to a specific message, please use the "reply" button at the bottom of that message. Then "reply to" and "reply from" links are automaticly put in place.
AdminneMOOSEus
This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 04-27-2005 03:58 AM

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Adminnemooseus
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Message 145 of 198 (203474)
04-28-2005 8:01 PM
Reply to: Message 141 by Mr. Ex Nihilo
04-28-2005 6:10 PM


Re: Message needs much reformatting!
I didn't really know how you did it, all I could see was that it turned out a mess. Thanks for the repairs (I assume they're done, I didn't look back at the message yet).
I didn't realize you were replying to multiple messages. People generally reply to specific messages, and thus the specific reply button in usually called for. Perhaps you could have lead off the message by saying "This is a reply to a number of previous messages".
I personally like consolidated replies rather than a bunch of individual messages (I've made issues about such things in the past), but I seem to be in the minority in that area.
I'll now get back to the message in question, now that it's in a more readable format.
Again, welcome -
Adminnemooseus

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