As you can see, this one didn't double post. But that's no guarantee that the problem is fixed. I went back through your recent posts and realized that your double posting isn't all that frequent. When it does happen, the intervals between the double posts range from 0 to 4 seconds.
I had two hypotheses about your double posts. First, there's the bad mouse clicker, where your mouse would generate two clicks instead of one. This might explain posts that are 0 or perhaps 1 second apart, but it hardly makes sense for posts that are 4 seconds apart.
My second hypothesis was posting delay. When I double post it's usually because FreeRepublic doesn't do anything when I thought I clicked. After a few seconds I assume I missed the Post button, and I click again. Then it turns out that FreeRepublic (or the internet) was just slow to respond, so I have two posts. This would explain posts that are 3 or more seconds apart, but wouldn't explain posts that happen in the same second -- unless you're unusually impatient.
I don't understand how flushing the DNS cache would help, but so far so good (after one post). Please don't stop posting or even slowing down your posting just because of this minor and infrequent problem. Your posts are too valuable.
You’re so kind to encourage me...I’ve been investigating -
I am scrupulously aware of whether I’m clicking just once - that’s not it..
it is apparently ‘latency’ or ‘drag’ on the net - I’ve trace routed (tracert) to some certain 4 servers my IP bounces through on the way to the FR servers where the problem is apparent- I can see the drag on the 6th bounce.
What is odd is that no other tracerts I do to random sites go through those 4 servers..and other sites give me 24-70 ms round-trips, where the FR tracert gives me 96-99 ms round trip.
Any other Qfreeks who want to test this out/have any suggestions, PLEASE let me know if you have the same results!
You’re so kind to encourage me...I’ve been investigating -
I am scrupulously aware of whether I’m clicking just once - that’s not it..
it is apparently ‘latency’ or ‘drag’ on the net - I’ve trace routed (tracert) to some certain 4 servers my IP bounces through on the way to the FR servers where the problem is apparent- I can see the drag on the 6th bounce.
What is odd is that no other tracerts I do to random sites go through those 4 servers..and other sites give me 24-70 ms round-trips, where the FR tracert gives me 96-99 ms round trip.
Any other Qfreeks who want to test this out/have any suggestions, PLEASE let me know if you have the same results!