On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:52:26 -0500 (EST), Eben King
<eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Craig Zeigler wrote:
>
> > Eben King 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.
> > >
> > How can you possibly blame any e-mail service for a user error?
>
> You can't blame it for timing out, but you can blame for not saying "you
> will lose your work if you try to submit it after some unspecified time" and
> having a gizmo that shows how much time remains, or at least some way of
> indicating that the time has expired. Since the people who design web forms
> use this kind of user-hostile mechanism way too often, I do backups on my
> own.
>
So far I have never had this happen, though I usually do a save draft if I
am going to be at it for a while I have started something, got interrupted
and returned up to a hour later and continued on, and sent the e-mail so
I have never had this happen with g-mail. I have had it happen with other
web based stuff (MS OWA)
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