Probably less than 50% of the time does anyone see the message before I corpse, depending how busy the mud is at the time (the more people online, the more whom are checking the site while regenning etc) but it has saved me more than once - which is better than guaranteed corpsing. I have Trillian (ICQ, MSN and AIM combined), but in this case only a few people I have listed were logged on to their communication services, and of them none were logged on to sloth unfortunately, so posting here was my last resort (which is usually the only time I'd even try it) ..and it failed in this case.
A little Lyme duck helped me do my own CR though.
