Russia Preparing for Nuclear Attacks on U.S, Britain

newsmax.com ^ | Sunday, May 18, 2003 | newsmax.com

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I wish the "duplicate post" police would just stow it. Maybe they have the luxury of monitoring FreeRepublic anytime, all the time, for interesting threads, but I don't. I can only log-on for an hour or two a day, and don't have time to scroll through the past 22 hours of threads for topics that interest me. I say, THANK GOD for duplicate posts, otherwise I'd miss out on some interesting stuff.

Well said. The duplication police need to get a life.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Can't answer that. How do you know what stories to search for?

[Howlin]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/search?s=russia&ok=Search&q=quick&m=any&o=time&SX=3ec8fa21c193d0a817fc2e293bc64451efaed707

[Howlin]

The word RUSSIA worked quite well; see my post above.

[Howlin]

Even the exact title worked:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/search?m=any;o=score;s=Russia%20Preparing%20for%20Nuclear%20Attacks%20on%20U.S%2C%20Britain

[AxelPaulsenJr]

See my post number 41

[Howlin]

Tell it to the AM, who locked duplicate threads all day long.

[Poohbah]

In this case, it was because I've posted on both of the other threads.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

You tell them, if it bothers you so much. I bet they won't lock this thread.

[smith288]

In a stunning turn of events, Paraguay defeated the Russian mock menuevers by deploying their fish trolling division at the request of the USA.

[Sabertooth]

What's everyone else's beef?

"Search" has always worked fine for me, as well.

The other FR search feature, "Find in Forum.... by title/keyword/poster" doesn't seem to be as reliable, so I don't use it.

[Consort]

Duplicate threads are a Liberal/Socialist/Communist/Anarchist/Atheist ploy to irritate FReepers and pit us against each another and to clutter up the servers and waste bandwdith and kill unborn children and promote homelessness and raise internet taxes and wear out keyboards and cause SUV's to kill innocent people and cause contrails in the skies. The evils of duplicate threads outweigh the benefits.

[Principled]

Search doesn't always work.

Lighten up.

[Sabertooth]

How do you know what stories to search for?

This is the purpose of ping lists. You miss a lot less of what's happening on FR.

SJackson, madfly, Terriergal, mhking, Ernest_at_the_Beach, Alouette, Pokey78, MeeknMing, farmfriend, and John Huang2 all have a number of ping lists on different topics of interest. So do others.

[Poohbah]

I think you have to be in the same forum as the article in question.

[okkev68]

Maybe you guys could start a couple of threads dealing with duplicate threads. This thread is going to get moved to chat.

[okkev68]

And then we can have duplicate threads about duplicate threads. And then duplicate threads about duplicated threads about duplicate threads. And then duplicate......

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I understand the purpose of ping lists. And I am on several. However, it is impractical to be on every ping list, and that is what it would take to make sure that one never missed any important posts in the FR.

If the purpose of avoiding duplicate posts is to save bandwidth usage, I would argue that everyone being on every ping list would use an incredible amount of bandwidth in itself. IMHO.

In the meanwhile, I am happy to let the mods do the picking and choosing as to what is duplicate and what is not.

[ASA Vet]

If there are already two similar threads, doesn't this thread become a "triplicate?" ;o)

[Poohbah]

Yes, and this is a virtual carbon :o)