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Amen, brother!

Yes, I was using the message board function and yes, I have told myself
in the past to draft using an editor and then pasting it (plus this lets
you do spell checking.)


Frank Reed wrote:

>Gary, you wrote:
>"I sent a post in to the thread "Navigation in fog" last night which
>took me a long to type and got the "Your Post was Successful" message
>but it doesn't  show up, I hope it wasn't lost somewhere."
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>Sadly, it probably did not post at all. There are no gaps in the
>message numbers. There's a small chance that it will still turn up,
>but I doubt it.
>
>Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I gather from your comment that
>you sent this message via the google message board function rather
>than by emailing it to the list. Is that right? Sending messages to
>online message boards via a web browser is a very nice feature, but it
>suffers from a fundamental flaw in every web browser that I am
>familiar with: unlike email software, web browsers do NOT save local
>copies of messages that you type. This means that you lose all your
>work if anything goes wrong in the multi-step process from edit to
>post. The simple solution is to type your message in any text editor,
>like Notepad or SimpleText, save it as you go, and then copy/paste it
>into the posting window. Over the ten-plus years that I've been
>posting messages to online message forums, I've lost maybe a half-
>dozen messages to this sort of problem, and in every case it seemed to
>be the message that I put the most effort into (this is probably no
>coincidence: the web server eventually times out your session, so long
>messages are more likely to get you into trouble). Despite all those
>lost messages, I still don't usually bother following my own
>suggestion by typing first in a local text editor.
>
>By the way, for everyone, the google message boards recently added a
>"feature": full-quoting in replies is now ON by default. In other
>words, when you reply to a message, using the google web interface,
>the previous message is dumped into your new message whether you like
>it or not. Apparently this "feature" cannot be turned off. As a matter
>of advice, if any of you all do use the google message boards, please
>avoid full-quoting by deleting the quoted section. Full-quoting wastes
>bandwidth and leads to pointless repetition on the list.
>
>-FER
>42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
>www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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