On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:04:17 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> It's the next day now. This message continued to refuse to be sent. I
> looked and hunted and wondered ... then looked at the e-dress I had.
> And it was then I knew we needed yet another "bell" or "whistle."
The same happens to me too every now and then. In every case it has always
been due to my fault and not a shortcoming in Arachne. In every case my
problem with having the messages stay in my outbox, instead of being sent,
has always been due to typos in the address lines. Sometimes I type
commas in place of periods, and sometimes I forget to close the quotes and
the "lesser-than" and "greater than" symbols that define the names and email
addresses.
Another bell or whistle in Arachne to help us to pinpoint our silly little
mistakes might indeed be a nice-to-have feature. However, a mistake as
stupid as these should be easy enough for us to find without any help
being automatically generated from the program. Given the current stage of
Arachne's development, I am voting for no more bells and whistles if they
involve eating up more memory. I think the best way to deal with little
problems like the one described here would consist only in improvements in
a general help file.
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Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
