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From: winter@Apple.COM (Patty Winter)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Discovery:  Go for throttle up!
Summary: Conclusion-jumping is dangerous
Message-ID: <18678@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 88 22:47:21 GMT
References: <5680@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <2961@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <111@microsoft	25144,1,1.UUCP> <755@atux01.UUCP>
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <755@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes:
>In article <111@microsoft	25144,1,1.UUCP>, danno@microsoft.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton) writes:
>> I didn't know that fuses generally just "blow."  I suppose that it's
>> possible that the fuse itself was faulty, but I wonder what the real
>> problem was.
>
>Excuse me, but I have just counted approx. 110 successive postings of this
>article.  Would the author please explain why his article was duplicated
>and sent so many times?  Did anyone else receive this many postings at their
>site?  Would the author please take steps to investigate this, and ensure
>that it does not happen again.

The author (actually, authors--it happened in some other newsgroups
as well) had nothing to do with it. It was triggered by a problem
in Microsoft's news software. You can read the news.admin newsgroup
if you want further details. It's turned into quite an adventure
for Usenet system administrators. :-)

Patty