--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <richardhughes103@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" > > > <willytex@> wrote: > > > > > > What a bitch RJ, I spend half-an-hour answering > > > every point here and the site crashes! > > > > When I put a lot of time and thought into a post, before > > I hit Send I copy it into Notepad, just in case. It's > > saved my bacon many times. > > > > My favorite post-eater: Yahoo regularly asks you for > > your password (every two weeks or so), even when you > > stay signed in. Sometimes it does so just after you've > > hit Reply; but other times it does so just after you've > > typed your reply and hit Send. When it does that, > > goodbye post. > > Not true, in my experience. > > When this happens (getting the password prompt > after hitting Send), immediately press the Back > button (do NOT enter your password) and return > to the edit window. Your text will still be there > (at least mine always is). Copy the text to the > Clipboard and *then* press Send again. Now enter > the password.
Good tip, thank you. Never thought of trying that. > > Then, when you're finished, rather than expecting > Yahoo to complete the Send operation (it won't), > go back to the original post, hit Reply again, > and paste in the text you had saved. > > I read and post from the Website because I like > reading the posts in the order they were posted, > not threaded. And sometimes it's a bit braindead. > But using this technique I haven't lost anything > I've written in months. >
