[eccl1212]

not everybody has a dsl or fast connection. some of us on modems cannot even ping faster than 11 kpbs.. that is why posts over a five minute time period can lag... folks SEARCH for an article... find nothing. Then they write what appears to be missing... and get clobbered for writing duplicates.. often with different titles, that are then floating in the sidebars.

I never post anything breaking, at least hardly ever... so it is not a problem... but some folks do and they post from different articles that have different titles and sources. I am sure it is difficult to catch them all.

I think it is important for "moderators" to realise that it is not being done "on purpose" to mess up the "sidebar" and also that folks DO check before they post... lag time IS a problem... and this is often WHY it is occuring.

When someone says something like "this is the eighth one of these I have pulled this afternoon", they sound like they are angry with us for NOT seeing the eight others that were similar (in their view) but are missing completely from ours... which has a different title from the ONE that was kept.

For what its worth... probably not much.

[captain11]

No, your opinion is right on. Valid comments.

[Sidebar Moderator]

I'll keep that in mind. Having recently been away and only able to connect via a 26k line, I realize how frustrating it is.