[villages07]

Muncle,

Not sure what key you're hitting to delete the text, but, here's an inelegant way to save your typing.

After you've typed a fair amount of text, use the mouse to highlight all the text then go to the menu and do EDIT-COPY (this puts your text into the comptuer clipboard).

If, somehow, your text gets zapped, just place the cursor in the text window and click on EDIT-PASTE from the menu bar line. This will paste the contents of the clipboard (i.e. the text up until you did EDIT-COPY) back onto the text box.

For a real long message repeat step 1 (Highlight-Edit-Copy) every 5 minutes or so.