Not reading all posts in a thread

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Dicentra spectabilis" 
<dicentra at x> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> 
> >>> Is there any way that this can be stopped?  Like, a reminder 
once
> a month or something?  I only mention this because it just happened
> today with the "Wizard to Ghost" thread.  I quoted a page and then 
a
> few posts later a different person quoted the same thing I did,
> obviously not having read what I wrote.  This could just be a pet
> peeve of mine though.<<<
> 
> 
> The List Elves *could* prevent this from happening 
> A gentle reminder from ADMIN wouldn't hurt.  Trouble is, the people
> who don't read the list before posting don't read ADMINs, 
either. :D
> 
> --Dicentra, speaking unofficially

Duplicate comments in a thread can occur even when all current posts 
in that thread have been read.  There is a delay in posting 
messages, sometimes a significant delay when Yahoo!Mort is acting 
up, and posts on the same point could cross in cyberspace.  This is 
even more likely to occur to a listee in moderated status.  I had 
encountered delays of over 24 hours before some of my messages were 
posted.  By the time my messages were posted, they were at best 
irrelevant.  Even if the point wasn't duplicated, the discussion had 
moved on to other things, and the original post might as well never 
have been written.  

Haggridd