# Duplicate posts

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duplicate-posts/739
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [February 29, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duplicate-posts/739 "2000-02-29T16:46:00Z")
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### Author: ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duplicate-posts/739/1 "2000-02-29T16:46:00Z")

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C&Ped from Manhattan’s post in General Questions:

If one is posting a message while the board is slowing down in preparation of an outage, often times one gets a “time-out” or other indication that the post did not go through.  
It did. It will. It always does. Please do not re-submit posts to the board. Sometimes the message will not appear until someone else has posted, but it will post. Please do not repost a message until someone else has posted to a thread.

Cleaning up multi-posts is a time consuming venture.