I've seen a number of posts in THIS forum (see? this is a post about THIS forum, that is, the POSER forum, not some other forum, so don't move this thread) complaining about how just when you have spent 30 minutes typing a long response in some thread, when you hit the "post" button, the message gest lost and your time is wasted. It happens to me too occasionally; I suspect it's what happens if two people try to post simultaneously. I've discovered a useful security measure - before posting, just select your entire message and hit Ctrl-C (or whatever the mac equivalent is). Then if the forum software eats your message, you can just paste it back into the browser window.