Joe, right now, I looked at the first twenty threads, only five of them give any indication of origin. So if clarity is REALLY the issue then you'd better get busy on the other fifteen.

You say "that messages from Shambles have never been changed." That statement conflicts with other information that I have received. It is my belief that Shambles has had some of his postings deleted.

You also say "Duplicate messages are routinely deleted. It just isn't fair to post the same message in several threads."

That is just not true. Many times I have copied a message of mine into anther thread where I deemed it a relevant contribution to that thread. For such a posting to be arbitrarily deleted would be wrong and unethical on the part of the deleter.