Posting messages

I've never had a problem with delay on submit. I did have a problem with using back after submit to re-edit. Would loose my text. That went away after I cleaned up my temp files, and that makes sense.

I often have trouble with delay on post and clearly everyone else does. I agree that IS the cause of the double and triple posting. I would bet that the post delay is related to the yt post server and the way it flushes TCP/IP buffers.

Both the submit and post messages are very large relative to typical uplink web messages. Your new wireless network could be tuned for small packet sizes and slow uplink speeds (this is typical) and that could be aggravating the situation with yt.

Try clicking on Tools/Internet Options. There a boxed area labeled Temporary Files and a button there labled Settings. Clicking Settings will bring up a window and at the top are buttons to select how/when to retrieve new versions of stored pages. I am looking at Win2000 so those might be different on XP. Worth a look. Delete your temoporay files while you're there. This often cleans up other little idiosyncracies

HTTP is a stateless protocol, that is, no permanent connection is made with the host. Your request makes a connection, the server gets the request, does it's thing, sends a response, and then CLOSES the connection. Your browser has made the request, is reading the connection and is waiting for the connection to be closed. Once the yt host has posted the message, sent your response, and closed the socket, there are quite a few players in the loop getting that all back to you. TCP/IP is very tolerant in waiting for that close socket message.

All that said, given the very high occurance of losing the close socket (based on the level of douple posts and comments here) my own opinion is that there is something not quite right. Whether it is configuration of the servers or routers, or just some performance issues can be problematic to determine. Kinda like troubleshooting a tractor with the mag in one county and the carb in another.

And yes, I dare not use the "back" button to make corrections. That always wipes out my message - be it from home or from work. If my errors aren"t glaring enough, I just let them be. That way you guys can nit-pik my spelling. LOL!!

If anyone knows the cure to that back button issue, I"d sure like to hear from you. Thanks.

The back button erasures occur on the composition page only. It works OK on the preview page.

Because I don't like to be a double poster, sometimes I will open another browser and check the forum. I can do this while I'm waiting on a slow response and usually I will see my post already there.

I have also found the back button to be erratic in keeping the message. I believe it might be related to temp files kept by the browser. Try deleting your temp files and see if that doesn't improve.

I just used my back button and backed all the way back to the forum. Then I used the forward button and came back here to add this line, and it worked fine. I recently deleted my temp files.