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- From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
- Subject: Re: Mail.app bug--beware
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.184644.10331@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov21.180407.8018@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 18:46:44 GMT
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- Avery Wang writes
- > Mail.app has a bug which is easily reproducible and VERY
- > annoying. When I have several compose windows open and use
- > another application, such as NewsGrazer or whatever to set up
- > another compose window, (such as what happens when I press
- > 'reply' in NewsGrazer).... it takes the first compose window in
- > the list of compose windows, and replaces all the text with that
- > of the incoming message from Newsgrazer!!! This is really
- > annoying because I lost 2 long, important, and complicated email
- > messages that way before I finally realized what was happening.
- >
-
- This is a long-known bug; there was considerable discussion of it
- when NG first came out. But of course any new users wouldn't be
- aware of it. Perhaps a prominent warning could be added to NG's
- README file in the archives? (Not that anyone actually reads
- them...)
-
- --
- -
- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
- spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
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