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Sunday April 21 05:57:06 2002 Re: 7 duplicate data! |
> There are things I could do to prevent this, but they
> then affect the people legitimately reusing the form to > post multiple episodes of the same show and things like > that. It is better to implement 5 - 10 minutes delay between multiple data entries than deleting the duplicate entries. The duplicate entries are creating "holes" in the database. |
Sunday April 21 12:27:48 2002 Re: 7 duplicate data! |
> It is better to implement 5 - 10 minutes delay between > multiple data entries than deleting the duplicate > entries. That would be rather tricky. It would require both a session number and a timestamp. > The duplicate entries are creating "holes" in the > database. That's not really a concern. There's going to continue to be plenty of dups from people not checking ahead of time. The concern is unnecessary work by the editors to remove entries from people who didn't meant to do it. |
Brian R |
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