On or near 5/28/04 11:39 AM, R. Kirk McPike at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> The first time I encountered this stupid key-command sequence, it deleted,
> without asking, a very, very long and important email message I had
> basically just finished and was about to send. It was a very personal
> message that I didn't have the emotional energy to go through writing again,
> and BOOM, Entourage destroyed it.

One precaution I can recommend: as you type a long message, hit Cmd-S
frequently. That saves a copy in Drafts, and if you accidentally hit
Cmd-Delete, the message won't disappear; it will just move to Deleted Items.
Having a message disappear without warning isn't good, IMO; Microsoft ought
to throw up a warning, "Do you want to delete this message immediately?
[yes/no]".

What bugs me, though, isn't Cmd-Delete, since I've never gotten in the habit
of back-deleting entire words. What bugs me is the plain Delete key when
typed in an incoming message window; it deletes the whole message. I fairly
often forget I'm in a new message window, and wanting to copy something with
a minor deletion, I type the Delete key...and curse! I can recover the
message by hunting for it in my Deleted Items folder, but it's a PITA.


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