Subject: Re: your mail

From: Big Chief Crazy Cone <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 18:29:37 -0500 (EST)

I just spent all day writing an assigment for my economics class.  The
moment I finished and went to proofread, the cursor froze and the words 
NO CARRIER
appeared on the screen.  I was forced to quit the program.  I reconnected
and found that my paper had been completely lost. This has happened
before, usually it asks if I want to continue with my interrupted message.
What I wrote was very good, I don't want nor have the time to do it again.
Can you please help me to find my lost message?  The method I used for the
address was to pull up an old letter and simply press 'R' for reply - if
that information helps at all.  the address was
[email-masked].  Please help me.

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 08:07:33 +0800 (GMT)

> [email-masked].  Please help me.

	Sorry, your message is lost.  

	There is another message in its place, however.  That message is
something everyone should know.  *Never* type in a long (or even short)
important email over a dialup connection.  No matter how much effort is
put into making the systems fault tolerant your message is bound to get
lost at the most inopportune time.  (I think a guy named Murphy would
have said it better.  :-) :-) )  You should always compose important
messages offline and upload them when it is time to send.

	Our sympathies....

	Ed

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 01:52:21 +0200 (CEST)

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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Big Chief Crazy Cone wrote:

  >NO CARRIER appeared on the screen. I was forced to quit the program. I
  >reconnected and found that my paper had been completely lost. This has
  >happened before, usually it asks if I want to continue with my
  >interrupted message. What I wrote was very good, 
  
I *love* this touch of modesty.  
  
  >I don't want nor have the time to do it again. Can you please help me to
  >find my lost message? The method I used for the address was to pull up an
  >old letter and simply press 'R' for reply - if that information helps at
  >all. 

No, it doesn't. But never mind that...

Are you seriously claiming that you were writing an assignment in pine? If
so, and if you've been using the vanilla version, there is is file 

	dead.letter

in your home dir. Try saying:

	more ~/dead.letter

from you CLI. But since pine (?) didn't ask you for it, it's likely lost.
Ask your help desk, this doesn't look like a pine problem. Also ask them how
to use another editor, one that allows you to make backup copies.

BTW, there's this pretty neat field in your header... "Subject" --- make
sure to fill in something sensible, please, will you?

Later,
Robin

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