adding to a thread - problem

Subject: adding to a thread - problem
From: Philip Hudson
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 01:31 AM

Sometimes when I add to a thread and then look at it again there are three or more identical messages from me on the thread. I do not do this intentionally. Someone said not to pick the RELOAD icon, but I don't and never have. Help me before I make someone angry at me and make muself feel more a dunce than I want to feel. _ Philip Hudson

Subject: RE: adding to a thread - problem
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 03:18 AM

Hi, Philip - I've noticed that you're just about ready to win the prize for multiple-posting. I've deleted your duplicates when I've found them, but I'm sure I missed a few. I'm wondering if maybe you double-click the "Submit Message" button when you're posting, or if you use your "back" button on your browser a lot. I guess all I can suggest is that you fool around and try to figure out what it might be. It's no big deal - the duplicate messages can be deleted.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: adding to a thread - problem
From:
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 05:45 AM

or (at least with my browsers) if you use the "reload" function.

Murray

Subject: RE: adding to a thread - problem
From: Will
Date: 14 Jun 98 - 10:53 PM

It happens to me most often when I hit the "Submit message" button twice (or more) because the submission seems slow and I wonder (despite knowing better) whether it worked the first time.

Subject: RE: adding to a thread - problem
From: Anne
Date: 15 Jun 98 - 12:57 AM

How do you get the stanzas to break at the end of a line? When typing in lyrics I type them correctly, but then when I view my posting, they're long run on sentences. Help?

Subject: RE: adding to a thread - problem
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jun 98 - 02:09 AM

Hi, Anne - the forum is set up so we have to use HTML codes, which lets us do some fancy tricks if we'd like. To set off the ends of lines - the code is < br > - that's all, just BR enclosed in angle brackets, with no spaces within the brackets. Here is a thread that will give you all sorts of good information about posting. The line breaks are the first thing to learn, though. I type lyrics in a word processor, and then use search-and-replace to insert the < br > marks wherever there was a paragraph mark in the text.
some people end paragraphs with < p > which makes a double space. I wish they wouldn't, because some of us can't transfer those paragraph breaks over when we copy to save lyrics, and all the stanzas run together. Better to us two < br > marks instead.
I fixed your lyrics in the Kennedy thread, Anne - nice song.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: adding to a thread - problem
From: jehill
Date: 15 Jun 98 - 11:32 AM

Go to the thread "Line breaks: how to do it"

Subject: RE: adding to a thread - problem
From: Anne
Date: 16 Jun 98 - 04:06 AM

Thanks for all your help!
Thanks, too for fixing my submission of Greg Brown's song about JFK.
Anne