Repetitive Duplication of posted forum messages:
For example, searching through this group’s posts over
the past 2 years, I found from “Jimmyjujames” ... 6 edited copies from
1/11/2019, and yet another 6 copies of the very same EDITED message a week later
on 9/11/2019. I don’t login via browser by download emails via client, so
is this “EDIT option” a part of the Groups.IO system?
Nothing was “actually edited” in any of those duplicates, not even so much
as a “comma replacing a period” ! This is just one example of dozens of such
repeating posts.
The original AP_GTO group was moved
from YAHOO to Groups.IO much later that year, on 24/10.2019 –
so the problem is likely not the fault of the Groups.IO server app, or of the AP
forums, but perhaps the email client app used to post their messages. I have
found a few other members, on about a dozen other Group.IO forums, so the
duplication is not unique to the Astrophysics forums membership, though I
would say the majority are here, owing to its large membership.
Scanning my saved emails list for this [AP_GTO] group, I
have come across several other members – using various ISP’s (Gmail, Yahoo,
Outlook, etc., even Groups.IO) – extra emails which I usually have to delete,
wasting time and disk space, since they seem to be useless Duplicates, made in
error, over this sampled timespan. The EDITED posts are good to see, if they had
a REASON (option line) attached for it, but the vast majority, with ray’s being
an exception, are just copies, without any changes made. Folks, please
exercise some care. Here are most of the sources I found in the past 2
years.
- Leo Shatz
- DiscoDuck
- Dominique Durand
- Mojo Jones
- CurtisC
- Mikko Viljamaa
- Even a valid one from Ray
Gralak:
[Edited Message
Follows]
[Reason: Removed
leading "Also" in first paragraph, which I forgot to remove when I moved the
paragraph to the top.]
...
another time: [Reason: Misspelled Brian. Sorry!]
- Dean Jacobsen
- Jimmyjujames (most of the duplicates)
- Robert Berta – a valid Editing – [Reason:
Clarification of question.]
-
Peter Bresler
-
Jack Huerkamp
-
Terri Zittritsch
-
Wayne Hixson
-
Tony Benjamin
-
Luke Leege
-
Calypte
-
Jerome A Yesavage
-
Bruce Donzati
-
Drgert1
-
Isphotoman
Are duplicates with the heading “[Edited Message
Follows]” – coming from their (common) smartphone email apps, or from their
browser, which might also be the same one, for all those members whose email was
repeatedly sent with just the text line “[Edited Message Follows]” added
at the top?
A few of the old posts saved in my group Live Mail
folder , really are valid EDITED duplicates, since
I found a couple which had yet a second attached line, added by the
editor below that first one, stating for example “[Reason: Added
info]”.
Perhaps some members keep clicking on the SEND in their browser, and
multiple copies are generated by the smartphone email app or browser – or their
mouse button/screen-tap, is sticky. Certainly doesn’t seem to be the fault
of the Group.IO server, based on our transition date being later than the oldest
occurrence of “[Edited Message Follows]” insertions.
There may be some commonality among all those duplicates
generated by several group members.
Otherwise, there is an on-going problem for the rest of us, who have to
check & (possibly) delete such suspect duplicates,
So, please check your own device – surely you must be
seeing your own duplicates sent back to your device, from [AP_GTO} or
other Groups.IO.
Joe Z.
