[ian@huth]

One thing that is missing in the poll is the option to use the "search" facility on the site. It is one thing to talk about things on CF but should you start a new conversation (thread) or join an existing one. My feeling is that you should use the search facility and if a thread exists that discusses your problem then use that thread. Sometimes though you find an existing thread that is so out of date or gone off topic that your contribution becomes lost and unanswered and starting a new thread is the only way to get a response. This is particularly true if you post in a thread that has gone off topic but is being posted to quite heavily and your post is the last one on a page. It gets overlooked and vanishes into oblivion.