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I posted yesterday, yet cannot clarify (by editing) a point I made in that post.OK, if that's to be forum policy, please let us posters know how long we have available to us to edit a post. Is it an hour, 2 hours, half a day, a day - or what? Please include whatever decision you come to in the guidelines. Please?
Modified by cq at Thu, Oct 20, 2005, 14:27:32
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If you're not in bed by midnight you change into a pumpkin. Then you'll never get to marry the princess.anth
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- "Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else -- if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
- "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
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Hi Chris
It use to be several days but was changed to 2 hours a while ago. The change was prompted by an abuse of the editing/deletion function.
If you need a particular post changed or deleted outside the 2 hour window please send a message to the moderators (moderators@elitemail.org) and one of them will change the post for you. In normal circumstances a 2 hour window we feel is quite sufficient.
Many thanks
Admin
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[name removed by Admin at the request of the named person] ! It was all his fault we got the 2 hour editing limit, Chris.
"It used to be several days but was changed to 2 hours a while ago. The change was prompted by an abuse of the editing/deletion function."
[name removed by Admin at the request of the named person] stomped round in a frenzy late one night deleting all his posts before the mods had a chance to do it themselves ...and now we've all been penalised ! 
Modified by Admin at Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 05:54:09
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Lexy,I think you are right, but there was another poster (Susie?) who also deleted all her posts making the forum look a mess. The problem with editing posts after posting is that people who have read them don't know they've changed, so they don't read the changes. But I'm a bit confused, Lexy - in what way has anyone been penalised?  John.
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....erks! ...before I turn into a premature pumpkin or am prematurely penalised......well...none of us can edit after the two hours is up....but I don't really care.
I was just getting into the mindset of my 13 year old son who sometimes grasses on his mates at school and then gets indignant and self - righteous because the whole class gets detention ,including him.Sorry, haven't had much adult conversation today!
Modified by Lexy at Thu, Oct 20, 2005, 18:21:44
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Hi there,write your post in Word. Wait 48 hours (or longer if you prefer), editing your post as often as you like, then when your alloted time is up, post it on the forum. And you still have two hours to make any last minute changes. Anth- EPO Time and Motion consultant.
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Freedoms are fought for - and won - over considerable periods of time.If we allow those freedoms to be taken from us - and hence from those who fought for them - when we don't fight for their perpetuation, then this spits in the face of those who fought for whatever freedoms we currently take for granted. Your forbears fought for the freedoms we now take for granted. Is their fight to be given up this easily?
Modified by cq at Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 16:02:14
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Thanks for the update, modfolks.Having lost the freedom to edit outside of the 2-hour timescale due to one (or two?) posters who abused the privilege, is there any chance that the previous freedom (re. editing) might at some future point be reinstated? Or are our freedoms more fragile than that?
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