Double-Click Sends (was RE: [Sca-cooks] Posting replies)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Celia des Archier" <CeliadesArchier at cox.net>
To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:02 AM
Subject: Double-Click Sends (was RE: [Sca-cooks] Posting replies)


>
> > Gunthar, Evil List Administrator posted:
> > > Please stop quoting entire messages. If your mail program does not
> > > allow for edited posts then just reply seperately. Some of
> > these are
> > > getting very long
>
> And Stefan added the helpful information below:
> > Another way to handle this if your email program doesn't let
> > you edit the old message is the way I do it because of saving
> > things for the Florilegium. This may work better for the
> > digest though, than for single messages. I save the digest
> > from my mail program as a simple text file. Then I open the
> > file in Word, change the fonts to courier 10 and set the
> > margins (this is strictly for the Florilegium). Then as I
> > read the list I delete the messages I'm though with. If I
> > wish to post something, I open a fresh, empty mail message
> > and copy and paste in the sections of the old message I wish
> > to use, add my commentary and send it.
>
> I believe that the person who has sent several long replies to the list is
> the same person who was having difficulty with his Outlook because it was
> double clicking on the "Reply" button which means that it was doing
"Reply"
> and then "Send" before the reply could be written, much less edited.
>
> Since this is a common difficulty, especially with later versions of
> Outlook, I could offer another recommendation for a "work around" that may
> help.  This information only applies to Outlook 2003, earlier versions of
> Outlook and other email programs have different processes to do this.  If
> you're having problems with you version of Outlook and it isn't 2003, drop
> me an email off list and I'll help you figure out how to fix this on your
> machine.
>
> On Outlook 2003, you can set your machine to wait to send messages after
you
> press send (called "delay".  This has an added benefit that you can go
back
> and edit things after you've pressed send if you think of something after
> sending. You can set up this delay for from 1-120 minutes. Here's how you
do
> it:
> * On the Tools menu, click Rules and Alerts, and then click New Rule.
> * Select Start from a blank rule.
> * In the Step 1: Select when messages should be checked box, click
> "Check messages after sending", and then click Next.
> * In the Step 1: Select condition(s) list, select any options you
> want, and then click Next.
> * If you do not select any check boxes, a confirmation dialog box
> appears to tell you that this will apply to all messages which you send.
> Clicking Yes applies this rule to all messages you send.
> * In the Step 1: Select action(s) list, select "defer delivery by a
> number of minutes". Delivery can be delayed up to two hours.
> * In the Step 2: Edit the rule description (click on an underlined
> value) box, click the underlined phrase a number of and enter the number
of
> minutes you want messages held before sending.
> * Click OK, and then click Next.
> * Select any exceptions that you want to exclude from this rule, and
> then click Next.
> * In the Step 1: Specify a name for this rule box, type a name for the
> rule.
> * Click Finish.
>
> If, after you've finished writing messages for the day you wish to go
ahead
> and send the messages which are in your outbox manually (before the delay
> time has worn off), you can do so manually by going into your Outbox,
right
> click on the message and select "Options", then uncheck the box which says
> "Do not deliver before:" and say "Yes" to the prompt "Do You Want to Save
> Changes" and the email will transmit immediately (or the next time your
> Outlook is set to "Send".)
>
> I hope that information is helpful.
> Cat
>


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