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From: tedcrane@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Info-Vax Digest   V0 #24
Message-ID: <1035@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 16-May-87 15:24:48 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 16 15:24:48 1987
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Reply-To: tedcrane@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Ted Crane)
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Organization: Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University
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This nice fellow:
>From: "ERI::SMITH" <smith%eri.decnet%mghccc@harvard.harvard.edu>
says:
>I keep doing this stupid thing:
>
>        MAIL> send/edit
>        TO:   node::user
>        SUBJ: Real long, important memo
>I then spend fifteen or twenty minutes composing this important memo
>in EDT and exit, expecting it to get sent.  Instead, I get informed
>that the partner has exited and the logical link is broken. And, of
>course, the temporary file is gone and there is no .JOU.

Yes, this and a number of other wonderful things happen to a lot of us.
Personally, I tend to send a message and then realize I should have sent
a copy to myself with SEND/SEND.  It amounts to the same problem, except I
cannot call VMSmail brain-dead when I have been the fool.

THERE IS A SOLUTION!

No, not a brain stem transplant for yours truly! VMSmail thoughtfully includes
a feature for situations like yours and mine, Mr. Smith.

	MAIL> send/last
	To: yourself

From my point of view, I have my copy.  From your point of view, you can
retransmit (I suggest you use FORWARD/NOHEAD/EDIT...the NOHEAD so you don't
exhibit your previous mistake, and the EDIT so you get a chance to update
your message) the saved message at a later time.