I have a Mac G3 and am surfing via a fiber optic server. Can anybody explain why the last few words in a sentence are chopped off when I attempt to post? Just wondered.

-- 8 (8@8.com), October 15, 1999

Answers

Simple: it's because you're

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), October 15, 1999.

8, I have a G3 too but I don't think it's a hardware issue. I started ending my posts with a group of useless characters long ago to avoid the problem...

Mike

==============================[useless characters]==================================

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), October 15, 1999.

8, hahahahaha! we know exactly the problem. For months we ended all our posts with xxxxx's to sacrifice to the cybergnomes who were chomping the ends of sentences.

Why it happens we never did find out. But here's the solution (thanks to the lineater clue from Mac in CA):

BTW, this Board wants HTML tags for paragraph & line breaks.
OK, at the end of your post, WITHOUT tags, hit "Return" key, then hold that thumb on the space bar ... then return again, space out, return, space, a few times. Feeding the cybergnomes this dessert fluff seems to satsify. Enjoy the Forum, nice to have you here!

And isn't the Mac a beauty! YES, it RULES !!!!

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 15, 1999.

I've found that as long as you have something worthwhile to say it doesn't happe

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), October 15, 1999.

Funny I only have a 180 6400ppc and never seen that problem. Interesting. Would it be the browser?

-- Brian (imager@home.com), October 15, 1999.

From the above evidence it would appear to be a "Mac" thing.

I think Mike uses one too.

Glad I got me one of these Dell/Gates machi

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), October 15, 1999.

You can find the fix to the problem here www.A

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), October 15, 1999.

There I was, delete key all polished up and finger cocked......

And now I can barely see the keyboard much less the keys, my belly (not inconsiderable in size, unfortunately) hurts from the laughter!!

YOU FOLKS are SERIOUSLY TWISTED!!!!!

The MaD DelETEr errrrr no that would be DieTEr I'm a DELETER.

Chnuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), October 16, 1999.