From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Repeating posts
Date:	Fri, 08 Aug 1997 10:17:12 -0400
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M. Edward Kiser wrote:
> 
> ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) wrote:
> >Why do some people repeat their postings
> >three and even five times like this, every few minutes?
> 
> (this = the post "Video memory access speed!!")
> 
> Maybe because the news reader says the post "failed" when it did not,
> and so the user tries again a few minutes later.

i could accept this as an explanation if the people who post the same
thing a gazillion copies of the same message did not also happen to be
the ones screaming the loudest.

-- 
   Sinan
 
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