Unretrievable post...

[CaptainBlood]

I posted "gs-elpa gnu-elpa melpa melpa stable & portage tree(pending)" a few days ago" in "Portage & Programming" section.
Maybe I deleted, in that case it remains listed
Otherwise it unreadable.

Thks 4 ur attention.

[John R. Graham]

We have seen a rash of errors of this type lately; we're not sure why. It is triggered by:

1. A title that's close to the maximum allowed length that contains an ampersand ("&"), and
   
2. A bug in the phpBB 2.x code that predicts the length of sanitized strings. The "&", you see, is converted to "&" for storage which, because of the bug, can overflow the database field that stores the title.

Alas, when this bug manifests, the post body is not even stored, so if you don't notice the posting error when it occurs (and it does report an error), then I'm afraid the post body is permanently lost. We have confirmed that the bug is fixed in the phpBB 3.x code we're working on.

The work-around, for now, is to shorten the title or else remove the ampersand. If you see the posting error, you can recover your text by simply hitting the <Back> button.

Sorry for the trouble.

- John
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