Help us out, please search before posting an article.

3-19-03 | Admin Moderator

[John Robinson]

It's a good idea, but it has to be a warning not an error. Some news sources recycle URLs or aggregate all news on one page.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

BTTT

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Headlines aside, comparing the bodies of the articles will confirm if they are duplicates or not.

[lawgirl]

BUMP!!!!!!!!!!

[fire_eye]

All right, I give up...

I know this question has been asked and answered 147,496,369,342,174 times on this forum - and I know I saved the answer at one time, and **I** **CAN'T** **FIND** **IT**, and I feel REALLY dumb, and I probably am looking right at it.

But that said... HOW can I search for postings (by poster, in this case) going back to, say, 1999 or 2000?

Any search I do, turns up 50 postings, and that's it.

Okay... now if anybody wants to subject me to some choice invective ordinarily reserved only for Demoncrats and other single-celled life forms, NOW'S YOUR CHANCE - I've got it coming.

< < GRRRRRRRRrr... HOW COME I CAN'T FIND THIS... > >

[Admin Moderator]

We didn't understand the abuse report you submitted regarding post 4. I am guessing it wasn't about that one, so what was it about? Thanks, AM

[Admin Moderator]

Because there is no way to do what you want through the FR search engine, at this time. Sorry, AM

PS: I would love to have that too.

[TomServo]

Try reading the first and last paragraphs of the article. Compare author names, if they're posted...

[Dog Gone]

Can we please post the phoney baloney email about which oil companies to boycott another 200 times? Puhleeze?

[SpookBrat]

White House Press Briefings

[freedomlover]

Thanks

[muawiyah]

So there about 375 police cars whizzing by right under my nose going toward Key Bridge and the stupid posting thing wants to know the URL of the story I am eye-witnessing!

That's a problem. Then I posted it to "Breaking News", which it was, and it got almost de-referenced EVEN BEFORE THE TEARGAS WAS TOSSED.

Right now I have nearly a hundred hits on my story, which makes it "BIG TIME" on FR.

[Joy Angela]

Thanks for the tip.

Sometimes, though, mere seconds count, especially with Breaking News, by the time a new post is typed/edited and sent...someone else has posted the topic first!

(Watch those fingers fly! It's like a race against the clock!) :)

Is there anyway to check for other new threads just before hitting the "post" button?