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"Time out error. This time out error only shows when you are taking too long to enter a post or if a spam attempt has been made."

God damn it!!! I set up a post, and for the first time I got this message. This is definitely a new thing. Fuck! I hate taking the time to construct a post, only to have it totally wiped out due to this shit.

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"If Frank Zappa cut a fart and mixed it to stereo, I'd buy it!" - jimmie d

I don't know what OS you use, but I have Windows IE, and when I get that time-out error, I just click the back button (arrow at upper left, pointing left) a couple of times, until it reaches the page version I had before I clicked submit. (it still has my post on it)

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Stay with me flagrantly and we'll have ecstasy for all eternity.

I started this particular post in 1953, and I didn't get that message at all.

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Let's hear it again for the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

The same thing happened to me a while back now(over 10 min and it is classed as spam)
I just copy and paste it after press Reply.

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Arf you out of your fucking mind.

you can also click 'preview' a couple of times while you're constructing your post.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Annoying! I copy and paste it ...how do you do italics?...before I reply/set up a topic

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A Blanket in my Muesli. A Blanket in my what??

He's a CEO for Chrissakes!

Just click the 'preview' button once, your post will appear in the previewm box, then click post and it's all done and dusted!

Yes, I used to lose the whole fucking thing in any version of "Windows" or the "classic" Mac OS in pre-Mac OS X days but now I don't in Mac OS X. I'm not sure about exceeding a "character limit" because I'm not sure where that ends now or if it does.

That I'm curious about: the possible "character limit" that may or may not exist here.

--Bat

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There seems to be no limit to the number of "characters" I've found on this forum.

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Let's hear it again for the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

Works for me. But I resent being called spam.

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Country music + Black music = Rock and Roll

That seems to be the case now, feets. But I remember clicking "post" in the pre-crash days and being notified that I was beyond the "character limit". After losing everything a few times I learned to do a "Copy/Paste" into a blank text file on the computer here and make a good guess where I had to leave off saying "CONT'D." at the bottom and "CONT'D from previous." in a second post, beginning where I left off.
But there was also that strange notice that "Your post was not received" message back then and I'd click "post" several times only to find 2, 3, 4, 5 repetitions of the same post and to click to "delete" one in hopes of knocking the other repeats out always meant to delete all. That was a real fucker!

--Bat

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