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by pfaut on Tue Oct 19, 2004 at 11:45:55 AM PDT

I think it's time to add some inteligence to the posting code.  It ought to be able to detect that there is no HTML encoding within someone's post and treat it as plain text.  The above is quite easy to read if you look at the page's source as the poster expected the site to format his paragraphs for him but instead got his dozen paragraphs merged into one when the site accepted it as HTML instead of plain text.

I know there's a selection box where you're supposed to tell the system if you are posting HTML or not but it seems many people forget to set it.

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