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From: ran@bentley.UUCP (RA Novo)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: senseless repostings
Message-ID: <552@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 14:12:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: bentley.552
Posted: Fri Aug  2 14:12:43 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 06:18:51 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway
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Ditto 
{or}   <-- Persons one word posting.
Yes

Why must people do this?? It seems that I've seen this in several different
newsgroups. Why must a long article be taken off the net, then reposted wholly
by some random person who just wants to show his or her agreement with one word?
This causes useless overhead. I know that net-etiquette dictates that you
post enough of the article you're replying to for clarification purposes, but
I'm sure that there are enough people out there in net land that agree with
a posting. If you don't have anything to add, I'm sure that the net doesn't
want to see a long article posted repeatedly just to see a new word added each
time.

-- 

Robert A. Novo				"Captain! They put creatures
AT&T Bell Labs				 in our ears! They made us say
Piscataway, NJ                           things that weren't true!"
...bentley!ran