Guests, and members, should learn at least the basics of the system. Unecessary duplications waste the time of those looking for material that is already posted, and interfere with the efforts of people like Joe who are trying to improve access to, and quality of, information in Mudcat.

All of us have made superfluous postings from time to time because of the sheer volume of material, and organization that, at times, seems to have just grown, like Topsy, but to expend no effort at all to find what is already here is either sloth or lack of respect for those who do try.