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Date: Aug 30, 2004

"Last Post" Lag....

Date: Aug 30, 2004

AE - It works just fine for me. I use Windows and Internet Explorer.

Jo

Date: Aug 30, 2004

AE, do you bring up the board and just leave it up, or do you close and reopen, or else hit the refresh button from time to time?

Date: Aug 30, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: NA
"AE, do you bring up the board and just leave it up, or do you close and reopen, or else hit the refresh button from time to time?"

If you notice, the "last post time" refreshes when you hit "refresh." I don't think it's always exactly correct, but it seems close enough.

Date: Aug 30, 2004

Thanks everyone. I too use Windows and Internet Explorer, and high speed cable internet. I'm not in the habit of using the refresh feature when the board is "up", but I typically check it several times a day when in town, and have never found the "Last Post" column to be even remotely close to accurate. To a non computer savvy individual, it seems that the posting of a message should trigger a real-time update of the "Last Post" time, and that isn't happening.

This isn't a major issue, but something that's a curiosity item for me. I'll try the refresh button and see if there's any improvement. Again, many thanks for all your suggestions.

Cheers,

AE

Date: Aug 30, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Austin Eagle
"the last post for any given thread is so inaccurate as to be worthless, often lagging several hours behind the actual time of the last post."

Austin Eagle, the acutal time of the last post is greater than the last post for any given thread because you are in Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas.

Date: Aug 30, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Timex
"Austin Eagle, the acutal time of the last post is greater than the last post for any given thread because you are in Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas."

Timex,

Since I'm a Mississippian transplanted to Texas, I don't necessarily subscribe to the "everything is bigger in Texas" claim. However, now that Gary Stringer is safely ensconced at Texas A&M, this state certainly has a bigger heart and more gray matter than before his immigration. And sadly, the other side of that equation would tell us that Mississippi is now measurably smaller.

That said, I will buy into your scientific explanation of the last post time discrepancy, and thanks for the best laugh I've had today.

AE