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2004-08-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by mercutio 2004-08-11 2:23:02 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Do you know where the caps lock key is? Use it if you want people to read your posts. All capitals is consider shouting. It considered to be rude.

Posted by Frendly Advice 2004-08-12 07:35|| 2004-08-12 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Note to Everyone: This is how MEMRI reports are created - all caps. If you had followed the link you would know this. If you've never been to MEMRI before, which is apparent, then you are way behind the curve.

Do not blame the poster. If YOU want to retype the reports, then do so.

Posted by .com 2004-08-12 07:52|| 2004-08-12 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 An alternative that might not produce perfect results but would certainly take the poster more time would be to copy the text to word processing software, I hate to use the name of the Devil's software, and change the case to sentence case.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-08-12 08:06|| 2004-08-12 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 MrD - Lol - your idea sounded good so I tried it on this article... it utterly failed - all lowercase after change to Sentence Case - lol - I guess the Word team didn't quite catch all the probable inputs, eh?

They let you down, bro, sorry! Sigh.

Posted by .com 2004-08-12 08:14|| 2004-08-12 08:14|| Front Page Top

#5 .com

Interesting. I 404 on the link. When I go to MEMRI and look at this it shows up:

Question: "How serious is Iranian penetration into Iraq?"

Sha'lan:" Iranian penetration is extensive and unprecedented since the establishment of the Iraqi state. The Iranians have entered the crucial junction points of the country as a whole and established many intelligence and military positions in Iraq. We have begun dealing with this matter in a way both subtle and exacting. The prime minister, the foreign minister, and I all make our voices clear against Iran's blatant intervention in Iraqi affairs, which is a dangerous precedent. They admit to having spies in Iraq, whose task is to undermine the social and political situation. The Iraqi people, however, are immune to this."

in mixed case.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-08-12 08:42|| 2004-08-12 08:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Well shit!

First things first:
My apologies Friendly Advice! You are right!

Now I have to figure out when they awitched to mixed. I was blocked from MEMRI in Saudi and a friend who introduced me to the value of the site watched it for me and sent me emails of their best articles - all caps. I just accepted that was the price of the info.

So when did they change? I've looked all over their site and everything has been properly formatted in mixed case - so they cleaned up with some program. It's certainly a helluvalot better! But I'm perplexed - and I don't save emails forever so I haven't a trail to see when the change occurred. Sigh.

Now Mercutio can explain the broken link and, I guess, the all-caps of this post.

Posted by .com 2004-08-12 09:23|| 2004-08-12 09:23|| Front Page Top

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