[Sidebar Moderator]

To some degree, yes, it is unavoidable. However, some were posted a full 5 minutes afterwards.

[ken5050]

Just tossing out an idea, FWIW..is there any way that when you hit the PREVIEW button when posting a new thread....the title automatically goes to the Search function, and in addition to the preview of your new thread, it displays any threads that meet the Search parameters within, says, a two hour time limit...

[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.

[Illbay]

H*ll, I'll bet you anything we'll have more people posting them tonight, as they hear it on their car radios coming home and decide they'll be the "first to break this big news."

[jammer]

I like your work. I wish you could do more--that is, save me from myself sometimes by deleting my duplicate!