Good suggestion, David. I can see getting the same article within a couple of minutes but quite often I see an article on something and then the same news from another source a couple of hours later. David Ross home.attbi.com/~damiross/airlines.html > A quick suggestion regarding posting of news articles. I know this > discussion has been had several times on both lists and the consensus is > that we should just go ahead and send full texts. But it would be nice > if we could cut down on the number of duplicate articles posted. We > don't need to read two different stories from different sources that > ultimately tell us the same thing. If one adds more information than a > previous post, that's different. And if two people send an article > within minutes of each other, obviously they wouldn't know. But if we > can take the time to read through what's already posted, we can save > some duplication and frustration on those who aren't interested in that > article. > > What I usually do is as I read the lists or find articles, I write posts > but save them to my Drafts mailbox. If I see something else that > duplicates what I was going to post I just delete it. Once I've read > everything and am pretty sure nobody else has posted what I am about to, > I go into the Drafts folder and actually send the posts. > > -- > David Mueller > dmueller7@lycos.com > http://www.quanterium.com