re: A "preview" function would be nice
I've actually created a preview function for the message form on the development system here. I haven't made it public yet because that damned Mozilla problem with a collapsing box showed up. In this design there are two tabs above the message box, "Message" and "Preview", but unfortunately the Preview window under Mozilla is collapsed into Nick's proverbial one-millimeter high sliver. When I work that out I'll post it to the public site.