Re: this ?



On 2005-12-19, John <joh$n@deism$$.org> wrote:
> Engineer wrote:
>
>> Hendry Leon wrote:[snip]
>>
>> Please stop posting everything multiple times. One copy is enough.
>
> If you look at the time stamps they are both 14.31. Perhaps Hendry Leon
> is having trouble operating his newsreader. One has to consider that he
> was not sure, initially, what a newsgroup was. It may have been more
> helpful to offer advice on how to actually operate his newsreader. It
> may also have been less than charitable to set the followup to
> alt.dev.null, he is obviously trying to communicate to
> soc.religion.quaker.

Hendry Leon is posting using the 'Google Groups' interface to usenet, one
of whose faults is the sometimes very long lag (several hours) between
posting an article and seeing it in Google Groups - which encourages
people to keep trying to 'send' the same thing over and over again.

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