Posted by John behle on June 29, 2004 at 13:31:10:
In Reply to: Re: Not a Full-Blown Recurrence, but Unnerving posted by John Reardon on June 28, 2004 at 12:30:08:
I'm not aware of any problems with the board or any missing messages. Nothing has been deleted or lost from the server.
I'm not sure what message you are referring to, but a couple things may have happened. Your message may have posted, but does not show up until you refresh your browser. The page is quite large at the moment and the page may take some time to load.
If your message still isn't there, then see the link above that says "Message not showing up - click here".
The board is set up so that you can review a message before it posts. Once you are done typing a message and click "submit" it will show you a preview of how the message will look.
It isn't posted yet.
Once you review it, you click "post message" at the bottom of the screen and it will post to the board.
At times when the index page becomes larger or when there are slow internet connections, it can take a little bit of time to post the message. Please be patient. Give it a moment and it should come back and say it has posted. Some become impatient and hit post over and over and we end up with multiple copies of the message.
My guess with your message is that you typed it and clicked submit, but then did not follow through with the "Post Message" step at the end.
On very rare occasions when there are two people posting at the exact same moment or a momentary hiccup in the internet connection can lead to a message not posting properly, but it doesn't happen often.
Hope that helps. John