# Lost a long post! #$\*(@#$)(\*)!@#$%^

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-a-long-post/19347>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 12, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-a-long-post/19347 "2000-05-12T17:06:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SingleDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@SingleDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleDad)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-a-long-post/19347/1 "2000-05-12T17:06:48Z")

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A three page post lost to the connection limit. Rassin frassin sassafrass. It especially irks me because this problem is relatively easy to fix: Have the CGI script acknowlege the post _before_ attempting to update the database. If the database is overloaded, put in a delay and try it again! Same with the forum list and forum contents loading code. Presumably you’re running a CGI which queries the database and returns the result. Don’t issue an error and choke, just delay and retry.

I will fix this _myself_ for _free_. I’m a professional computer programmer with 23 years’ experience. You can look at my [resume](http://home.att.net/~lhamelin/docs/resume.html). I will sign whatever non-disclosure or employment agreement you want (pay me a dollar if you have to). Email me at home at [lhamelin@iname.com](mailto:lhamelin@iname.com) or at work at [lrh@intersw.com](mailto:lrh@intersw.com).

This is the year 2000 for cripes sake! I wrote a more reliable BBS twenty years ago when I was in high school! And it was uphill both ways! 😉

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-a-long-post/19347/2 "2000-05-13T01:31:17Z")

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That happened to me once.

**Once**

Now I copy everything into my paste buffer with two clicks of the mouse before I send it. Just a habbit I got into- it can happen almost any time if the receiving server resets your connection.

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-a-long-post/19347/3 "2000-05-13T02:44:53Z")

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SingleDad, I hope the board defect is remedied, by you or someone else. For a variety of reasons I’ve gotten in the habit of composing anything more than a two or three sentence response in Notepad, and pasting it in the reply box when ready.

The first few times this happened, it took me back to the days when I had a TI-99/4A with a ‘QUIT’ key.