This is a real puzzler -
For more than a week now, my pc keyboard "drops" letters as I type, but ONLY on this site. I have reverted to writing in an email, and then pasting it into the message box.
I also have a strange LAG whenever I click on a topic - it takes forever to read the posts. Is this only happening to me? I'm not sure if AOL is at fault, my pc, or the web in general. It never used to behave this way - anyone shed some light on this?

(Nigel - I don't even suspect you as a cause - this site is VERY well maintained)

Dave
My guess is that your problem is AOL. It's overloaded by too many users quite often. So you get the painfully slow webpages, etc. You should get DSL or cable modem.
Tom

The DSL is already on order. Funny thing is - no other area of the web is slow. Just THIS site.

Well, UD, you know this is by far the most popular site on the web by now.

Hi Uncle Dave. If your are using Internet Explorer as your browser you might try clearing your cache as there may be a corrupt file in there related to this site. In Internet Explorer just click on tools then Internet options then click on delete files. A delete files dialog box will appear and there will be a checkbox in there to delete all offline content. Make sure you check that box and then click ok.

If you are using Netscape Communicator click on edit and then go to preferences. On the left side of the dialog that appears you will see Category. Click on the plus sign to the left of advanced and then click on Cache. Now click on clear Disk Cache. Clearing the cache a browser uses can often clear up problems related to specific web sites.

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[This message has been edited by Vic01 (edited 12-13-2001).]

Vic, you wrote the answer I was going too,
so I'll just add that a PC restart after the
cleaning might do good too.
GJ

I had a similar situation before and the problem was a mild type VIRUS attached to one of the cookies in my browser. I would suggest updating the virus definition file and running your anti-virus software just to eliminate this probability.

Maged

All good suggestions- I'll try them.

Hi Gunnar. I just happened to be at work where we support a host of network users so I wrote a quick reply. You are absolutely right about rebooting the PC after those steps are completed. Good call.

Tried it all - same results. Weird, huh?