Arabic-L:GEN:Formatting messages for Arabic-L

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Arabic-L: Tue 19 Mar 2013
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1) Subject:Formatting messages for Arabic-L

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Date: 19 Mar 2013
From:moderator
Subject:Formatting messages for Arabic-L

I'm sure many of you have been disappointed to see how your messages look
when they come from Arabic-L after you have spent a long time formatting
them to make them look good.  Here is the deal:

1) Arabic-L cannot post ANY attachments
2) ALL (or almost all) formatting is removed from messages before posting

This means that centering, tabs, bold, italic, will all be removed.

If you want to see how you message will look, paste it into a text only
program with no formatting (on a Mac, for example, you can open a textedit
window, change it to text only, and paste in your message).

If you want to manipulate the 'look' of your message, do it in the text
only program, using only returns and spaces.

If you are commenting on a previous message and want to include a piece of
that message, you need to overtly mark it (by hand) since the markings that
come across from your email program are almost always omitted or messed up
by the server here.

Finally, some seemingly innocuous looking messages are rejected repeatedly
by my server because they have forbidden 'hidden' characters.  I usually
try to send it with less and less of the original message until it accepts
it.  This has happened more than once recently, so if your message was
truncated, that is probably why.  Again, doing you message in a text only
program with no fancy extra codes will often take care of this problem,
unless you have some virus that is producing it.

dil

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