I can anticipate a rebuttal...what do you need to preview for, it is
just text? Studies have shown that users do not pick up on mistakes in
a text area as well as they do when the message is shown read-only. It
is a way to put yourself in the reader's shoes, outside of the editing
mode, and READ the message to make sure that it doesn't make you sound
like a fool (or does make you sound like a fool, if that happens to be
the intention of the e-mail).
So, without furthur discussion, Gmail Preview Button Please!!
p.s. Oh look! There is a "Preview" button on Google Groups and I just
used it. Does my message make more sense?