| The following are step-by-step instructions
on how to post a trip report to a Usenet newsgroup. They are written
specifically for those folks that use America OnLine as an internet
provider, but can be adapted to other providers (but you're on your
own there, since I'm not familiar with other internet software).
These instructions assume that 1) the text of your report has
been written offline using your word processor, 2) that you are
posting your report to the newsgroup rec.arts.disney.parks, and
3) that your word processor is Microsoft Word. If any of these
assumptions are incorrect, simply adjust the instructions accordingly.
- Start Word and open your trip report document
- Set your page setup to include line numbers (line numbers
are a helpful tool in Word, if your word processor doesn't have
this feature, you'll have to estimate your total number of lines
via some other technique...perhaps the word processor status
line shows what line of the document you are on, for example.)
- Start AOL and sign on.
- Go to RADP newsgroup and select "Send New Message".
This will open a message dialog box.
- Enter your subject line. I usually write something like "Trip
Report, Part 1 of". I don't put in the total number of
parts now because I don't know yet. Don't send the message yet!!!!
- Starting from the top of the Word document, mark up to about
350 lines or so MAXIMUM of text. I typically break up the document
at the end of a day or some such logical break in the text.
- Using the cut function in Word, cut all of the selected text.
- Go back to AOL and past the text into the New Message dialog
box.
- Check the text at the top and bottom of the dialog box to
ensure that all of the text you cut and pasted is there (I've
had some nasty surprises when I tried to cut and paste more
text than the internet protocols allow -- about 400 lines).
Since you still don't know the total number of parts, you still
can't put that in the subject line. Still don't send the message
yet!!!!
- Select "Send New Message" again. This time the subject
line you enter should read something like "Trip Report,
Part 2 of". Again, don't put in the total number of parts
now because you don't know yet. Don't send the message yet!!!!
- Go back to Word, cut the next 350 lines or so, and repeat
until the whole Word document has been pasted in pieces to several
New Message dialog boxes.
- Then count the total number of boxes and go from one to the
next editing the subject lines so they now read, "Trip
Report, Part 1 of 7", for example.
- Send each of the completed New Message dialog boxes.
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