Thanks a second time, Doug... assuming that you had something to do with the e-mail I got from the technical staff telling me that "they're working on it".

I clicked on my name, and it didn't bring up the Switzerland report with about 60 posts :(

Faina, there's more than one place to click on your name, and you'll get different results.
Click on your name once, and you'll get a list, as you know, of some of your postings on the left side of the screen. Click on your name that appears at the top of THAT list, and as #52 today, your Switzerland thread comes up.

Elaine, THANK YOU!! I never knew clicking on your name twice changes the list!!

3 years 9 months on Fodor's and still so much to learn!

Sometimes if you click your name at the top of the column at left twice in succession, you get two different lists.

Go figure.

Go figure indeed, I know you and rex discussed once the vagaries of coding that could explain the different listings that appear by clicking on names in different locations, but if you don't understand this issue then I certainly won't.

I still think that this is due to "caching" on their end (as odd as that seems).

topping... for Philip

rex, I turned off the cache on my browser, and it stopped behaving like that. It seems that the index "page" (the left-hand column is a separate document) is not refreshed unless you force a new copy to download.

It's never made any sense to me that Fodor's would cache user indexes. I've run a few dozen web servers since 1995, and I've never seen anything like that.

What baffles me is when I use a computer that has never been on Fodors before (like in a public place, such as a library) or not for a month or so (certain places I work infrequently), and a click on my name yields what appears to be a several days old retrieval. That's why I conclude that there is a cache on "their end".

The behavior on computers you use infrequently don't surprise me, as the cache will persist until something erases it.

A computer you've never used before would get a fresh index the first time, and what it contains is probably subject to the same inaccuracy as the search function, <i>i.e.</i>, you get an index of old posts because the new ones haven't been cataloged yet.

I'm sure there's an explanation that doesn't involve &quot;server caching,&quot; as there is no reason to do that, and a lot of reasons not to.

The problem is on Fodor's end. It is not a &quot;cache&quot; issue.

Clicking on my name and repeatedly reloading the page will often give several different aged searches. Usually none of the serach &quot;dates&quot; are ones that were performed on the conputer being used.

Keith

Yeah, that was happening to me, too.

Okay, now try this: turn off your cache and click repeatedly on your name. You will find that the same list comes up again and again.

Nothing changed at Fodor's end. But the behavior is different. Is this a clue?