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Diddydoris

Diddydoris Report 19 Apr 2008 15:04

and again!!

Seaham Lass

Seaham Lass Report 19 Apr 2008 17:56

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JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 19 Apr 2008 19:07

Rita -- why do you delete info like that???

I just never understand this ...

I often do a search of these boards to see whether anyone has been asking about someone of interest to me -- not everybody posts to a surname "board", so I search the whole set of boards.

Also, I sometimes do a search when I'm trying to help someone else, to see whether anyone else has asked about the same family in the past.

It drives me absolutely crazy when I see a question and I *know* there has a been a previous thread about related people, but whoever had posted it -- either the same person or someone else -- has deleted it.

I have no idea what this old message appearing in something's place might be -- but I'd suggest just avoiding the problem by not deleting information!

Researching:
Please use the "ADD YOUR REPLY" box below to reply. Please DO NOT click "Send Message" and send a private message (unless info is about living people or otherwise sensitive). THANKS!

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 19 Apr 2008 21:43

Don't worry -- it's not the old messages themselves that are the problem.

It's just that people *reply* to old messages as if someone had just written them yesterday. ;)

The problem isn't the old messages or even the replies, really, it's that

- people who reply to old messages by putting a post in the thread are probably never going to hear back, because the person who started the thread won't ever know there's an answer;

- the rest of us occasionally get stupid and start researching a question, when the thread appears in the current list, before *we* notice that the original post in the thread is years old!

Deleting old messages isn't "wrong", it's just my own thoughts that leaving messages on the board, where they don't do any harm (and don't take up any room on anybody's computer, although there's always somebody who thinks they do!), is a good idea in case a distant cousin comes along some day and finds the post.

A message board like this can be a good archive for that purpose. Not remotely as well organized and functional as the genforum boards, for example, but you never know what you might find!

Researching:
Please use the "ADD YOUR REPLY" box below to reply. Please DO NOT click "Send Message" and send a private message (unless info is about living people or otherwise sensitive). THANKS!

WayneTracey

WayneTracey Report 20 Apr 2008 13:40

Arghhhhhhhhh

I do wish people wouold looks at dates..... Come on !!

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=613050

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 20 Apr 2008 22:39

still not the record though is it???

Researching:
Panda, China, 2008 .................................. ............................ .............. .......... .......................................................... To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 21 Apr 2008 00:16

I think I've found the record-holders.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=637708

Posted 4 Dec 2002.

First replied to Feb 2008.

Several totally unconnected replies since ...

Researching:
Please use the "ADD YOUR REPLY" box below to reply. Please DO NOT click "Send Message" and send a private message (unless info is about living people or otherwise sensitive). THANKS!

Kris & Paula

Kris & Paula Report 21 Apr 2008 00:20

I have a thread on here from February 2003 that I regularly check in the hope that someone someday will respond to it!
I can understand that people should not get tied into an old thread but perhaps just a quick message in the first instance just to see if it's still being checked would save a lot of time & effort!
Chris

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 21 Apr 2008 00:41

Chris

no-one is suggesting that the old threads be ignored .... but that a pm to the thread "owner" of an old thread would be more useful than posting on the actual thread.

I dare to suggest that you might be in the minority in still checking an old thread.

It seems in fact that most of the old threads may well belong to people who no longer come on to GR.


sylvia

Researching:
Panda, China, 2008 .................................. ............................ .............. .......... .......................................................... To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 21 Apr 2008 04:19

n

Researching:
Panda, China, 2008 .................................. ............................ .............. .......... .......................................................... To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Diddydoris

Diddydoris Report 21 Apr 2008 11:51

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 21 Apr 2008 21:00

n

Researching:
Panda, China, 2008 .................................. ............................ .............. .......... .......................................................... To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 22 Apr 2008 06:53

and again

Researching:
Panda, China, 2008 .................................. ............................ .............. .......... .......................................................... To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Diddydoris

Diddydoris Report 22 Apr 2008 07:55

and yet again....

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 22 Apr 2008 21:19

and again

Researching:
Panda, China, 2008 .................................. ............................ .............. .......... .......................................................... To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

WayneTracey

WayneTracey Report 23 Apr 2008 10:49

ooooh, someone used an old message from last October.... and i'm on it with one of the replies....

Infamy, Infamy..... they've all got it in for me....

*Off to take my pills....* *twitch*

Tracey :)

Diddydoris

Diddydoris Report 23 Apr 2008 13:37

and yet again....

Diddydoris

Diddydoris Report 23 Apr 2008 21:23

n

Seaham Lass

Seaham Lass Report 23 Apr 2008 21:57

n

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 24 Apr 2008 03:39

and again

Researching:
Panda, China, 2008 .................................. ............................ .............. .......... .......................................................... To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

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