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Subject: Re: Posting Errors/Editing

Author: Mark Ryan

Date: 23:45:45 11/11/00

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On November 11, 2000 at 10:16:11, James T. Walker wrote:

>I wonder if it is possible to set this site up so posting errors can be
>corrected by the person who posted?  I see many occasions of people having to
>make a second post to correct the first which makes reading difficult.
>Just my two cents.
>Jim
Problem #1:  You would need to edit the original post before anyone replied to
it.  Otherwise we could have a thread based on an altered post, which could
ugly, if not illegal somehow.
Problem #2:  You would need to "freeze" the original post while editing it, so
that nobody could reply while you are editing.
Problem #3:  Some people would already have read the original post, and they
would not know that it was in error and that it had been corrected.  Under the
current system (a follow-up post by the original author), they would see the
follow-up post.
All in all, this is very tricky.
Mark



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