Viruses are a common problem among writers and authors.
We have to share our documents with publishers, editors, proofreaders, and printers. Each one will put our document file into their computer and review it - and at each stage, they will increase the possibility that a virus will attack the document - and subsequently, our computer.
There's not much that we can do about this problem at later stages, except for installing an antivirus program (for what it's worth).
However, on Jewish Writing, we can certainly limit the problem as much as possible.
Documents should be sent to Jewish Writing in a clean format. One possible solution is to send the documents in e-mail format, without encoding. That means that there will be no pretty backgrounds, no special fonts, no nuttin'. Just plain, vanilla text.
Actually, e-mail likes that format best. All e-mail programs offer that option. It's the only one that can be read by ALL e-mail programs.
Paragraphs must be indicated with an extra blank line, or they will not be recognized.
See other documents in this section, including Viruses, Format, and Word format for additional explanations of the problem of viruses.
Documents that are posted to the Jewish Writing website will indeed be virus-free. We will post only plain text documents. We are interested in preventing the spread of viruses.
