#8131 - 10/15/00 09:49 PM
% overdose
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enthusiast
Registered: 09/20/00
Posts: 347
Loc: Melbourne, Australia
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Is it just me, or do other subscribers experience problems with their browsers on this bulletin board occasionally displaying the sort of gobbledegook below? I have just hit a personal record of about 1000 lines of this rubbish before finding the post messages right at the bottom. Is there a cure?
(note - every # below is a % but I modified it 'cos the % don't show properly in a post)
067#2C#2C3112#2C#2C3119#2C#2C3128#2C#2C3131#2C#2C3134#2C#2C3150#2C#2C
3500#2C#2C3509#2C#2C3512#2C#2C3530#2C#2C3561#2C#2C3564#2C#2C3572#2C#2C
3577#2C#2C3584#2C#2C3587#2C#2C3603#2C#2C3605#2C#2C3606#2C#2C3629#2C#2C
3647#2C#2C4395#2C#2C4404#2C#2C4412#2C#2C4437#2C#2C4483#2C#2C4586#2C#2C
4629#2C#2C4668#2C#2C4700#2C#2C4761#2C#2C4778#2C#2C4785#2C#2C4799#2C#2C
4801#2C#2C4810#2C; Set-Cookie: miscellany.read=#2C3067#2C#2C3112#2C#2C
3119#2C#2C3128#2C#2C3131#2C#2C3134#2C#2C3150#2C#2C3500#2C#2C3509#2C#2C
3512#2C#2C3530#2C#2C3561#2C#2C3564#2C#2C3572#2C#2C3577#2C#
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#8132 - 10/16/00 01:27 AM
Re: % overdose
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old hand
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 1010
Loc: Switzerland
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Hi Marty, For a long time, I have been getting this kind of nuisance, especially when looking at long threads. I just accepted it, like other imperfections in life, as a price for the priceless AWAD wisdom  .
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#8133 - 10/16/00 06:38 AM
Re: % overdose
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addict
Registered: 03/17/00
Posts: 460
Loc: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Hi, Marty. Doesn't happen to me, but I can imagine how frustrating it would be.
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#8134 - 10/16/00 03:55 PM
Re: % overdose
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/28/00
Posts: 2888
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Yes, as wsieber said. I usually had this problem with the longer posts. The best way to eliminate it is to go straight to SHOW ALL instead of going page by page.
Not too much of an inconvenience since I usually know the last post I read. It is also not a bad idea to show all since you can find previous comments much more easily when all you have to do is scroll up and down.
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#8135 - 10/16/00 04:29 PM
Re: % overdose
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enthusiast
Registered: 09/20/00
Posts: 347
Loc: Melbourne, Australia
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Thanks wseiber, paulb and belM. I hadn't twigged that it related to choosing a particular page rather than Show All, and my testing of that theory has been pretty inconclusive since the behaviour doesn't appear to be consistent. I always used to select Show All, but recently I've been hitting just the last page if I know that it's a thread I'm pretty much up to date with, in the vain hope that it will load more quickly that way.
After I posted the question here, I decided to mail it to Anu directly. If he comes up with any other helpful suggestions, I'll post them here for all.
I've also noticed that "word wrap" sometimes doesn't happen on posts, i.e. there are some posts, or perhaps it's only on some login sessions, that display with very long text line lengths (several "screens" wide) so that you have to keep scrolling out to the right to read them. Others stay nicely inside the window. Can anyone explain that phenomenon?
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#8138 - 10/17/00 07:01 AM
Re: % overdose
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/23/00
Posts: 2204
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Sounds like an oversight on the part of the programmer. If URLs have to stay on one line, then it is easy to program to recognise an URL and automatically alter the line parameters. It would also be v. easy to reset the line length to 'normal' after, but it would require the programmer to think of it. I can quite see that it is an easy thing to miss.
I can't think of any other logical reason for this occurrence - which doesn't mean there isn't one, of course!
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#8140 - 10/22/00 10:01 AM
Re: % overdose
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Registered: 10/09/00
Posts: 197
Loc: cary, nc, usa
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I've been having these errors after I finish reading a thread and try to go back to the forum. I've had to quit netscape a couple of times because I just couldn't get anything to load at all
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