This has happened to many in the past. Most past problems have been resolved because the 'time out' has been extended, but it can still happen.

When you are making a long reply, or a reply that will take some time to compose, do it in Notepad or a word processing program. Then when you are ready to post, you can just copy/paste all the text in.

A second method that has been successful, is during your typing hit the preview button. That will effectively reset the 'time out' clock.

A third option. Type and compose what you want, then just before you are ready to 'post new reply' - highlight all of your post text and press 'Ctrl + C'. That will put all of your text in Windows memory. If when you try and submit it all goes belly up, then just click on reply to message again and use 'Ctrl + V' and whatever is in memory will be pasted back into the entry window.

DenverDon

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