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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
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Subject: Re: Ack!  Another outbreak of duplicates!
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Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 12:28:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 28 12:28:21 1986
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"...can someone explain why this has become so common in the last six months..."

Yes. There are several possible explanations. Choose one. They are all free:

1. Cf. Law of the Conservation of Difficulties.
2. Law of Self Preservation - or - the Survival of the Fittest. Net software,
seeing that it is about to be reorganized out of existence in a misguided
attempt to reduce traffic volumes, is attempting to populate the universe
with parts of itself or its progeny before the axe falls.  Software often
does this sort of thing in an attempt to preserve itself.  Most often it does
so in an effort to get an incompetent System Administrator replaced.

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"It's the thought, if any, that counts!"  Dick Grantges  hound!rfg