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From: john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Famous Cross-Posters
Message-ID: <129@jetson.UPMA.MD.US>
Date: 30 Aug 88 16:19:39 GMT
References: <6966@well.UUCP>
Organization: SMART HOUSE Limited Partnership
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In article <6966@well.UUCP>, pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> And now, the winner, with twelve newsgroups:
> Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.databases,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.misc,comp.sources.d,comp.std.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc,comp.unix.questions,misc.wanted,comp.lang.scheme.c
> Subject: !!! WANTED ALIVE !!! source for simple editor

And best of all, out of all the twelve newsgroups, he didn't even
include the correct one for his request: comp.sources.wanted!

Actually, this is a surprisingly low number of cross-posts beyond six
groups....

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