"news.kal.sbcglobal.net" wrote in message t...
When I copy and paste printed text to news group post, the line breaks from the original publication are retained and result in
something like:
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POSTED 8:54 a.m. EST; UPDATED 9:21 a.m. EST, March 5, 2007

PACKERS CHASING BELL

Bell was acquired by the Lions last week as part of the Dre' Bly deal. As we've reported, both Bell and former Broncos tackle
George Foster are candidates to be traded again.

We're also told that the Packers contacted the Bears about the availability of running back Thomas Jones, but the Bears said that
he
is not available. It remains to be seen whether the Bears would be willing to trade him to a team other than their intra-division
arch-rivals.

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I think it might have something to do with

Tools/Options/Send/News Sending Format

Can the off the automatic word wrap be disabled?


I doubt M$ understands what active people in newsgroups need and want.

Here's my solution for correct formatting of any text to be posted in newsgroups:

If you have Word installed then copy the text into Word,
mark everything (ie. CTRL-A), then shrink the right side
(ie. move the ruler some centimeters to left to have about 72 characters per line),
then SaveAs, select "PlainText (*.txt)", then an extra popup opens.
There chose "Other encoding" and select UTF-8,
and enable "Insert line breaks" (this step is important).
Now you have formatted the text, ie. defined the line length yourself,
and saved it in a textfile. You now only need to open the txt file
with the text editor (Notepad, included in Windows)
and copy & paste into your message. Voila! :-)
You don't need to use MIME or HTML etc. in newsgroups,
just PlainText by using the above method.