On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> 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.
Yes, if the site has one (feedback forms often don't, webmail sites usually
do). I never got the hang of using it though. But, it does store
information from >1 fields, which is difficult to do manually.
-- -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactarEvery normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken
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