Re: [SLUG] I hate Gmail

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 11:21:37 EST


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:15:38 -0500 (EST), Eben King
<eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Dylan Hardison wrote:
>
> > I just spent about an hour writing the minutes of the St. Pete
> > meeting, only to accidently middle-click and have it all lost.
> >
> > I think I'll go back to using Mutt now.
>
> One of my big fears with typing long text passages into some web-based
> thingy is that the page will time out while I'm composing, and I won't know
> until after I submit and my text is gone. For this reason, I always
> copy&paste my text elsewhere periodically. Not as good as a save to disk,
> but better than nothing.
>

This or use the [save draft] button at the bottom of the page. That has worked
real good for me. If I am doing a long one I just hit it and save the
draft every
so often then I press on.

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."
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