LOSING DRAFT EMAILS - THE SOLUTION

A PROBLEM WITH EMAILS Somebody just emailed me: '' I've just spent over half an hour writing a long detailed and well thought through message to you in answer to your question, only to be told at the sending stage that it was too long and had been deleted before allowing me to reduce it. All was lost. I'm cross! And it's a further nail in the coffin for continuing with intenet communications in my ideal future.'' MY No 1 SOLUTION - PHONE CALLS That's why I prefer the phone. You know your message has got through. You can alter and adapt your conversation according to the other person's reaction. My No 2 SOLUTION SAVE EMAIL DRAFT FIRST I forget drafting and saving elsewhere frequently. Usually I log on, see an email and start typing a reply. Of course it's your longest emails which took so much time and trouble which get lost. Sometimes the server times out. Sometimes the site shuts down to protect you because they think no saving text means you walked away from a computer in a public place forgetting to sign out and some passer-by could cause trouble to you or the site. Let me remind myself and you of the solution. Draft your reply to emails in a Word document. Save every time you reach the end of a paragraph. (I know you're scared of filling up the memory - but it's better than losing your email.) Then copy into the site. Does anybody agree? Disagree? Have a better suggestion?