Who left the lights on?

[Jackie]

Tom,

I'm glad you got to meet Jerry. Such strong opinions and yet such a kind soul. He gave his full support to people he felt were sincere "straight shooters" and hated pretense and snobbery. He loved to engage people and get them thinking. He was fearless in tackling controversial issues and loved to be the "Wine Curmudgeon".

He was a treasure and we all miss him very much. Sometimes when I will read a thread on this board I wonder what Jerry might have said. So I'll do a "search" for some keyword and limit it to Jerry's board name "Curmudgeon", just so I can read comments that he posted over the last years on various subjects. It's sometimes very interesting.

As for your lightbulbs, if they all go out at the same time that means the cookie has updated its timestamp and is comparing the time of all new postings to the time it has set for your "last" visit. If no new postings are present, the lights go out. The question is, why is the cookie resetting itself every few minutes? I still think this has to do with the "back" functions. Cookie thinks you are starting a new visit on the top page, when actually you are only clicking back and forth between the top page and the forums/threads. Does this sound right?

If so, try using the back button of the browser exclusively to navigate backwards and see if the problem still continues.

If it goes away, then the problem lies with other methods of going "back" which are embedded in the software (and can be fixed) -- like the links at the top of each forum page. I haven't got this pinpointed yet.

Jackie