Back in the good old days, my preferred solution was to hit "edit" on the post I wanted to copy from - if you cut & paste from the edit screen, linefeeds are preserved, while cut & paste from the regular view does not. The key is, you could go to the edit screen even if you had no intent or authorization to edit a given post, since the system didn't require a password
until you pressed "submit". You could also use this to discover what UBB and HTML codes had been used in someone else's post - very useful for learning. Now with the upgrade though, you can no longer get to the edit screen unless you are authorized to actually perform an edit. Which means it must be your own post, or you must be a sheriff or a bartender acting in your own form. Which ofcourse makes this trick of limited use to most people.
However, I just tried using Opera instead of IE, and found that I can cut and paste just fine there, with linefeeds preserved. So it may be worthwhile switching over - or at least, have Opera available on your system, and try it occasionally. Go to
www.opera.com (duh) to download it. Enjoy.
[ January 10, 2002: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]