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Re: A suggestion for posting via the Web interface
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 25 May 2001 17:09:12 GMT
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Thanks Richard...nice to know I'n not the only one out there who has pulled
this particular 'Homer'...D'Oh!
Actually, that's exactally what I did for the re-made version of that
particular rant...typed it up in SimpleText (Mac) and copy/pasted it into
the web interface text window. Works well, and lets me work at my own pace
for thost non-time-critical rants.
Matt
In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Gerber writes:
> > I just spent about an hour, on and off, typing a deep, well thought out
> > message to post via the Web interface. Lack of sleep and clumsy fingers made
> > me close the window before posting the message to the intended groups.
> > Stupid me.
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> Whereas I like your suggestion (because I have done the same thing before),
> I have to think that Todd will "low-priority" this request -- there being
> such a lot of other stuff to attend to.
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> For dumb***es like ourselves, I recommend a text editor for composition,
> saving it to your favorite place on your system, and then cutting and
> pasting from the finished document to the browser window. Works for me --
> even allows for interrupted composition sessions in case you wanted to do
> something lunatic like -- sleeeeep!!!
>
> I use Textpad myself, BTW, which is not only a great text editor (sort of
> the SUPER text editor) but will also compile different languages and then
> even run your code! Weeeee...!
>
> -- Richard
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| (...) Whereas I like your suggestion (because I have done the same thing before), I have to think that Todd will "low-priority" this request -- there being such a lot of other stuff to attend to. For dumb***es like ourselves, I recommend a text (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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