grizzled, Spot on!
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Originally Posted by
Contact Approach 
goeasy,
People don't have generally have all day to read 40 pages worth of nonsense?
True enough, but what people can do (should do) before posting a question, or media quote, is do a quick word search of the thread. That takes but a minute or two and saves the rest of the readers having to endure multiple repeats, and perhaps saves the poster being embarrassed, or exposed to the slings and arrows of other ppruners...
When many were struggling with the very same problem of double, triple,
ad-nauseum posts on the same question or topic, John Tullamarine, (
Tech Log), provided the following search tool. One can use this to search any thread on PPRuNe. One can search for his/her subject or some key words which are in his/her pending contribution, to see what may have been said/posted regarding same.
The bolded words are the words one is searching for. The rest of the text points to pprune and to the forum one wishes to search in, (tech log, rumours and news, etc.)
Give it a try - it does return all instances of the search words, so be discriminating!
Make sure the entire text of the URL is included: site:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours and news etc., then add your search text to the front of the URL:
Searching for ACARS af447 in "tech log":
ACARS af447 site:
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/