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Originally Posted by trevorbsmith
I would swear here if I didn't assume it was against policy. I registered--irritating--just to post an answer to this thread so other people would not be left hanging like I was. Once the site showed I was logged in, I typed a very long reply and submitted it. Then the page said I wasn't logged in and, amazingly, the back button took me back to a blank form--my entire post was gone. Sigh.
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What browser do you use?
MR uses cookies stored on your machine to determine your logged in state. If something diddles the cookies, it may forget you're logged in.
I've seen occasional issues with the Back button doing as you describe. I use Firefox 3.6 as my production browser. It tries to preserve the state of what I'm doing, so I can usually restart the browser and get back to where I was, including replies in progress, but occasional I lose the reply in progress too. I haven't identified the circumstances in which it fails. As a precaution, if I'm making a long post, I may copy the text to a file in a text editor, so I can restore it with a copy and paste into the browser if I have a problem and have to restart the browser of the machine.
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Dennis