What's Wrong With Newlines?

From	Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	What's Wrong With Newlines?
Date	2019-03-29 01:59 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<q7ju57$pl4$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)

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Increasingly web forms for sending general messages to people
(usually in place of Email) seem to deliberately reject all the
newlines that I attempt to put into them. It seems to be deliberate,
or at least not considered worth fixing, which is strange because I
would consider it a major issue.

Usually they allow you to enter the newlines in the actual textarea
box, but then when you send it and look back, all the formatting is
reduced to a mess, often with joined-together words. I seem to
usually want to include a list of something, or postal address, in
these posts and the newline stripping completely obliterates any
attempt to make them readable.

One site that I used recently actually sent the message as soon as I
pressed Enter, so the recipient got an Email from me saying only
"Hello,".

Why? What's wrong with newlines? The web seemed to exist in harmony
with them for so long!

Now I have to keep going through messages after writing them and
putting two or three spaces at the ends of each newline, just to
ensure some sort of visible break and prevent things from getting
joined together. An add-on to do this automatically would be really
handy actually, but there doesn't seem to be one for Firefox that I
can find.

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What's Wrong With Newlines? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-03-29 01:59 +0000
  Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-03-28 23:31 -0400
    Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-29 23:22 +0000
      Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-03-29 21:58 -0300
        Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-30 11:23 +0000
        Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-30 09:02 -0400
        Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2019-03-30 15:24 +0100
  Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-29 09:32 +0000
    Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-29 09:44 +0000
      Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-29 23:07 +0000
  Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-29 21:26 +0000
    Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-29 22:56 +0000
      Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-03-30 00:21 +0000
        Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-30 14:37 +0000
          Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-04-17 07:04 +0000
            Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-17 12:23 +0000
      Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-30 14:33 +0000
    Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-04-01 16:10 +0000

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