"Dropped" or ignored response

[ChrisGreaves]

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I thought to do a real-fast response to a posting, and typed in just a fake Smiley - note the colons surrounding the unsupported text.
I have used fake smileys before, mainly just to show how clever I am.
But I suppose I have always used a fake smiley with some other text.

I chose Preview, then Submit ("You cannot post another message ...") and used the PgDn key and clicked repeatedly until the sixty-second warning disappears.

Twenty minutes later I click again on the Gmail notification to see if there is any update to the thread and I notice that my response isn't there.
OK. Maybe I screwed up. It might happen one day.

I resubmit it with just the fake smiley, do the wait-sixty-seconds dance, ...
Behold and not lo! it isn't there again.

So I added "Cheers Chris" and it now appears.

It seems as if a response with just quoted text and a fake smiley posted within the sixty second limit is flagged as being non-existent.

(wanders off to TEST to start a thread there)

Cheers
Chris

[HansV]

My friend Dopje wasn't able to reproduce the problem...

[ChrisGreaves]

My friend Dopje wasn't able to reproduce the problem...

OK, Hans.
It's my fault
Again!


Cheers
Chris

[John Gray]

It's my fault
Again!

No need to hold an Assignment of Blame meeting, then!

[stuck]

[It's my fault
Again!

No, Chris, you're looking at it the wrong way. It's more likely that it's becasue you are a responsible person.

As in

Spoiler

anything goes wrong, you're responsible

Ken

[ChrisGreaves]

No need to hold an Assignment of Blame meeting, then!

[ChrisGreaves]

As in

Spoiler

anything goes wrong, you're responsible

Thanks Ken.
It's been that way since May 1967.

Cheers
Chris