On 26-Mar-08 20:38:25, mbm wrote:
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:38:53 +0000 Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk allegedly wrote:
I just managed to send some confidential docs intended for someone at one customer to someone with the same name at another customer...
Completely my fault, it's been a long day.
Does anyone have any clever solutions for this kind of thing? I can't think of one myself.
Mark
No, but you could try switching to a mail client which does not auto-complete (or just turn off auto-completion in Tbird).
Mick
I hope Mark Rogers manages to recover gracefully from his unfortunate slip!
I have to commend MBM's suggestion of turning off auto-completion. I could never live with auto-completion/spell/grammar -- I've seen far too many painful things happen!
For email addresses I use an alias system of terse abbreviations which I type in. So I type in "alug" and it fills in the full address. It doesn't "auto-complete" because there's no other entry in the aliases database which is identified as "alug".
Mind you, I don't use Thunderbird, so can't comment on setting up such a system of aliases in TB.
The Cambridge Evening News has an "auto-date" tic in whatever software they use to write up their articles, which inserts the relevant date immediately after "today" or "yesterday" or "Thursday" (e.g. "Thursday (20th March)", assuming last Thursday), etc. Their most triumphant gem that I've seen yet is from last December:
(The country's roads have been given "star ratings" for safety (1-4, with fractions ... ). The A14 gets 2.79 stars.)
Quote from the above article:
Dr Steve Lawson, technical director of EuroRAP, the organisation which worked out the star system, said two-star roads like the A14 were "dysfunctional" and "were not built to cope with today (Wednesday, 05 December)'s traffic".
Ah well, perhaps it was better the next day!
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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