How To: Prevent duplicate coding

[wolle]

Just because someone has double posted doesn't mean it has been answered elsewhere.

No but if you know about the double post you can better decide if and how you want to reply. I cannot think of any situation where awareness of the existence of a double post would be in the way.

At any rate, it amazes that folks have the bandwidth to visit other sites enough to discover when something has been double posted.

You don't need much bandwidth today. There aren't that many programming forums and the overall activity is much slower than it used to be. I used to post at the Sun Java forum in its heyday and there was hundreds of questions each day and hundreds of replies to each from a large community of regular posters. Those were the days...