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Gary, you wrote:
"I sent a post in to the thread "Navigation in fog" last night which
took me a long to type and got the "Your Post was Successful" message
but it doesn't  show up, I hope it wasn't lost somewhere."

Sadly, it probably did not post at all. There are no gaps in the
message numbers. There's a small chance that it will still turn up,
but I doubt it.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I gather from your comment that
you sent this message via the google message board function rather
than by emailing it to the list. Is that right? Sending messages to
online message boards via a web browser is a very nice feature, but it
suffers from a fundamental flaw in every web browser that I am
familiar with: unlike email software, web browsers do NOT save local
copies of messages that you type. This means that you lose all your
work if anything goes wrong in the multi-step process from edit to
post. The simple solution is to type your message in any text editor,
like Notepad or SimpleText, save it as you go, and then copy/paste it
into the posting window. Over the ten-plus years that I've been
posting messages to online message forums, I've lost maybe a half-
dozen messages to this sort of problem, and in every case it seemed to
be the message that I put the most effort into (this is probably no
coincidence: the web server eventually times out your session, so long
messages are more likely to get you into trouble). Despite all those
lost messages, I still don't usually bother following my own
suggestion by typing first in a local text editor.

By the way, for everyone, the google message boards recently added a
"feature": full-quoting in replies is now ON by default. In other
words, when you reply to a message, using the google web interface,
the previous message is dumped into your new message whether you like
it or not. Apparently this "feature" cannot be turned off. As a matter
of advice, if any of you all do use the google message boards, please
avoid full-quoting by deleting the quoted section. Full-quoting wastes
bandwidth and leads to pointless repetition on the list.

-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars


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