Sorry... can't remember. Is there no way to delete a new thread you start in a situation like this where there's a technical error and you end up posting the same thing more than once? (Would be embarassing if I wasn't among friends...)
It would be good, though, if it were possible for a member to just immediately delete a post (s)he's started and no replies have yet been made. I'm thinking of this situation that I was in the other day when I posted these about am3 not working properly, and each time I thought that the post had not gone through. It may not be possible to do this, though. It would all depend on what the system can be made to do.
Andrew, I understand what you are saying. Unfortunately, this forum is power by Vanilla and I just checked if there was any such possible permission that members can get, but there were none. Members can either get a full delete thread rights or no such rights at all.
The root cause of this problem is of-course the server issues we had in the last few days. We moved our email server to a new server and we are monitoring its performance and also have plans to improve the main server resources moving forward to meet the needs of this growing community.