>I just posted a message with a lot of pre tags in it, so I hit preview before I sent it.
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>There was no way out of the preview.
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>I hit back
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>My message was gone! gone! gone!
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>Ouch.
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>How is one supposed to use preview?
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>Thanks!

I'm using IE4 and sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. I've just gotten into the habit of making sure I do a select of all my text, and a Ctrl-C copy BEFORE I preview. It's burned me several times before that sunk in.