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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Announcement
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.231031.2890@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 25 Oct 89 23:10:31 GMT
References: <4380@yunexus.UUCP> <31019@news.Think.COM> <987@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> <2943@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <2943@husc6.harvard.edu> by kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar):
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| In article <987@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) writes:
| -In article <31019@news.Think.COM> barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin) writes:
| --Hmm, this is at least the THIRD posting of the White Knight 11.0
| --announcement I've seen.
| --Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
| -
| -I had intended to post it a couple more times to allow those that may
| 
|   You specifically stated in the top of the long article that we would
| only see this message once. I'm of the opinion that even that once didn't
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(1) He was joking about the reposts.  They were done by:

	- an official from Freesoft
	- me (I didn't know someone from Freesoft was on the net at the time)
	- someone else who downloaded it from a BBS

(2) "You will only see this message once" -- it was clear to me, at least,
that that was part of the BBS's "header" for the message.  I suspect it was
set up as a login bulletin on the BBS in question.

(3) The announcement was posted as an informational message, not to encourage
people to buy White Knight (I, for one, dislike Red Ryder and am not
particularly interested in upgrading unless someone reports that the user
interface has been made less annoying).

Lighten up.

++Brandon
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