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I don't know what the deal is but it seems this forum doesn't want to post a specific topic I've been trying to post. When I try to post, I get this:
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This is probably a temporary error. Just refresh the page and retry. If problem continues, please check back in 5-10 minutes.
Been getting that for about 2 hours now. My attempts to post end up with a topic created in the forum but the message is empty.
Am I in forum jail or something? 
Any special characters such as ampersand in it?
Uuuhhh.....uuummmm.....hhhmmmmm....trying to look like I know what that is.....
I noticed that two. Three blank ones. An intriguing title, like you may have a publisher for your book. And this is an ampersand. &&& Actually, three of them. I'll remove one. They say three is a crowd. &&
I noticed that two. Three blank ones. An intriguing title, like you may have a publisher for your book. And this is an ampersand. @@@@ Actually, three of them. I'll remove one. They say three is a crowd. @@
Oh...yeah....I knew that.....
I was trying to insert an image into my post and it has some screwy symbols in the URL link. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe I should try posting without the image. Hmm...let me try that....
Acting like I know what I'm doing.....
Images can be a problem. I had trouble with some pictures. I had to convert them to .jpg (which was odd, as they were .jpg) before I could post them.
HAHA!! Finally got it right!!
Nevermind, Sol. Thanks for the help, Kdot and Rachel. The post I wanted to make is up now.
Bobbie
I noticed that two. Three blank ones. An intriguing title, like you may have a publisher for your book. And this is an ampersand. @@@ Actually, three of them. I'll remove one. They say three is a crowd. @@
That's the "at" symbol. & is the ampersand.
CJ. You're right, so I'll edit it and no one will ever know.
Ampersands can be a problem. They are a special character in HTML, indicating the start of a sequence spelling out a special character. To display one, you need to turn it into the character name for an ampersand (which begins with an amperssnd). When you get one in the input, you need to convert it to that character sequence so it will display properly. But what happens if it gets interpreted a second time? This is a 'level of quoting' problem, and solving it means knowing, at each point in the HTML code, what level of quoting is expected, then ensuring that you have that level and no other. HTML is not a good programming language--it's a markup language--and it's easy to make a mistake
I haven't tested it on this site, but on some sites, you can include an ampersand by preceding it with a backslash "\", which means "take the next character as a literal."
Bill
That's the Unix/Linux quote convention. Inside HTML, the code is literal-ampersandamp . But the problem is quoting snd interpretation at different levels of the system. Will copy-paste mishandle it?
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