I've thought this had happened at least once before. This time I'm sure of it:

I replied to one post. Then I replied to another post in the same Topic/thread, but when I posted the reply, the two replies appeared in the Topic as a single post. How can that be?

I know that I had successfully posted the first reply before composing the second reply, because I could see it displayed as the "last" post in the Topic as I was proofreading my second reply. I know that I wasn't mistakenly replying to my own first reply, because then I would be able to see both my first reply all by itself and the combined reply. But there's only the one, combined post. Besides, the second reply was to a different post (with a different author) than the first, and the quotes from both the distinct original posts are included in the combined reply. (I can combine replies like that deliberately, but it takes extra, special manipulation, which I definitely did not do in this case. Besides, if I did that after the first reply was actually posted, the result would appear with a notice that it had been edited. But no such notice.)

I'm very curious as to how this could have happened.

It's happened to me, too. I suspect that if you post within a certain time frame, in the same thread, they get combined. It's a mystery!

It has happened to me as well, and I remember reading another post by someone (I think it was Helen) wo mentioned that the same thing had happened.

Of course, none of this goes to answering Jim's question "How can this happen?" but at least it offers "it happens."

I've found out that consecutive posts within 10 minutes are merged and treated as a "P.S.". I'll see if I can turn this off. It's designed to cut down on spam and clutter (to help prevent flooding a topic).

Paul

Okay, the "merge posts made within 10 minutes" feature has been turned off. Thanks to Jim for pointing out this annoying feature to me. I guess it makes sense for boards where flooding is more of a problem, but not here!

Paul

Thank you.