There have been two pairs of duplicate ATels posted this week -- ATel #1793 and #1794, and ATel #1805 and #1806.

These duplicates were posted by the authors, for reasons which inspection of the confirmation page should have revealed, such as unexpected formatting, and incomplete author lists.

The credentialed authors are responsible for their postings. They are expected to examine their ATels prior to posting, for which the confirmation page is given. The Editors regret that they are unable to produce an exhaustive list of all possible means by which ATel can be misused, and rely on the prudent judgement of each credentialed author to be carefully exercised.

As a guideline, the Editors regard re-postings which are not necessary to fix scientific mis-information to be abuse of the system, and its readers. To accentuate the point when abuse of the system occurs, the editors will suspend, and have suspended, the credential used to repost the ATel either temporarily or, depending on the severity of the misuse, permanently.