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[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 157079

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <kking0731 at ...> wrote:

> Steve snipped:
> 
> Also, more a tip than a rule, PARAGRAPHS and lots of them. 
> On the Internet discussion is much easier to read if it 
> is in small digestible bites. Use far more paragraphs than 
> your high school English teacher would have thought proper. 
> Posting your thoughts in one huge paragraph makes it very 
> difficult to read, even if from a 'English teacher' 
> perspective, one paragraph is correct.
> 
> Snow:
> 
> Touché' I figured this one out just from reading others 
> posts. I do try to attempt to indent whenever possible 
> so that my meaning will have the most effect, if possible. 
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Just my thoughts
> Snow
>

bboyminn:

Not being critical of you but you mentioned something 
else that reminded me of another very good tip for 
posting anything on the Internet.

INDENTS - don't use them.

They may work if you receive your posts by email, but 
when reading posts using the web interface, all leading 
zeros are suppressed. So, if you make several neatly 
indented paragraph lead-ins, it comes out as one huge 
paragraph on the web.

The proper way to do paragraph breaks on the web is with 
a full blank line between paragraphs. 

NOTE: that you, in this post I am responding to, did use 
'blank line' paragraph breaks. 

It's just that you mentioned 'indents' and that reminded 
me of this tip. So, please, don't take it as a personal 
criticism.

To some extent, when posting on the web, we have to abondon
or modify those neat tidy little rules our English teacher 
taught us. The classic 5-space paragraph intent that server 
the world for over a century is no longer valid in
electronic writing. 

Just another tip.

Steve/bboyminn

PS: I'm pretty sure everything I have mentioned can be found in the
rules for posting in the various HP groups.