I've often suggested that Jim R. and staff install and edit function for those of us who are often working and posting at the same time and "click up" before proofing completely.
Updates are a bit slow. “Anthrax Scare” is still listed as a hot topic.
Reminds me of the phrase "If you don't have time to do it right, when are you going to have time to do it again ?"
FR does have an EDIT button. Matter of fact, you cannot compose a reply and just HIT POST. It FORCES you to hit PREVIEW or at least HIT POST a second time before it will allow the reply to be POSTED.
If you choose NOT to proofread your own reply, then the PROBLEM is YOU, not FR.
Now, sometimes you preview your post and still don't find your own error. That happens to many folks. Many would like to GO BACK and EDIT a former post. Sounds like a good idea, at first.
The problem is that some posters would take advantage of this to CHANGE their comments after getting caught either lying or misleading.
We already have a problem with people denying their words, even when they are RIGHT THERE and can be SHOWN to them.
There is nothing wrong with making a post to correct a previous post, as we do now. It's like an audit trail. If something gets changed AFTER it gets recorded, we need to know that it got changed and why.