[Diddle E. Squat]

OH come off it. Its about the funniest story I've seen in a month. He/she correctly didn't post it to breaking news, nor the front page, so it will cycle out quickly. Which is why reposting is no big deal, many haven't yet seen the story. What does it hurt, if you don't want to read it, don't go into the thread.

[MooCollins]

What does it hurt?

You obviously didn't read the rules and regulations for being a member here now did you?
You see, this forum is an archiving forum.
that means all posts are archived and saved for our (members) posterity and future use.
So the issue is not one of rights it is one of RESOURCES.
So far this excellent forum has been absolutely free and you are only compelled to donate of your own free will (<sarcasm>and you both donate I'm sure </sarcasm>).
It would be nice to keep it that way so people like you can continue to join and adulterate and ignore the rules...

[MooCollins]

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About the recent deletions of Daschle's anthrax posts

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Source: FreeRepublic
Published: 10/15/2001 Author: sidebar moderator
Posted on 10/15/01 10:16 AM Pacific by Sidebar Moderator

In the 10 minutes since the President announced that Tom Daschle had received a possible anthrax letter, no less than 10 threads appeared to that effect.

The moderators moved quickly to pull the duplicates and that spawned 4 threads asking what happened to the threads.

Multiple threads on a topic not only waste bandwidth, but spread the discussion over too many threads to follow.

Please, before posting about an event like this (or for any story) do a search. Check the sidebars, or if you have sidebars turned off, refresh the latest articles or latest posts page to see if your topic is already posted.

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Because the duplicate threads were coming so fast and there are multiple moderators working, ALL of the posts were deleted at one point and the oldest has been restored.

We also decided to leave a second post, containing a pulished story on the subject in breaking news. Normally it would be better to have the full story added to the original thread, but in this case the original thread had many replies and the full story deserved to be available.

1 posted on 10/15/01 10:16 AM Pacific by Sidebar Moderator
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