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From: alfimp <alfimp@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Collaborative ascii art
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 18:15:42 +0000
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On 25 May 2002, Harry Mason wrote:

> Date: 25 May 2002 16:44:00 GMT
> From: Harry Mason <spam@no.spam>
> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
> Subject: Re: Collaborative ascii art
>
> On Sat, 25 May 2002 14:27:38 GMT, Osfameron <osfa1@osfameron.abelgratis.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > But I'm still taken to a page which says
> >
> >   Annotation successful! Wahey, eh?
> >   If you are not returned to the page within a few seconds, click here.
> >
> > But I think it should go directly back to the artwork
> > (e.g. back to the same Perl script.  This should be possible!)
>
> It's possible, but it's not necessarily a good idea. The problem is if you then
> refresh the page, it resends your changes, possibly overwriting someone else's.
> As it is your changes would only be sent again if you refreshed the "annotation
> successful" page.
>
> --
> Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)
>

What he said.

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