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Re: Please help with research

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From: Douggie Green
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 02:42
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In article <419hd9$8i6@news.cityscape.co.uk>
           ccbc@bcs.org.uk "Chris Craig" writes:

> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
> 
> >Amazing to see what an effective troll the original post has turned into :-)
> >I wonder how long this thread will last.
> 
> The thread(s) appear(s) in :
> 
>         comp.lang.ada, comp.lang.apl, comp.lang.basic.misc, 
>         comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++, 
>         comp.lang.clos, comp.lang.eiffel,       comp.lang.forth,        
>         comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.misc, 
>         comp.lang.modula2, comp.lang.oberson, comp.lang.pascal, 
>         comp.lang.prolog, comp.lang.smalltalk, comp.lang.objective-c, 
>         and comp.lang.functional
> 
> and will presumably continue to do so until *all* these newsgroups get
> bored of it. 
>
God, I'm bored. Has it disappeared? No.

> With the combined forces of 19 newsgroups 70 odd posts means only
> around 4 per newsgroup - not very much.  However, 70 plus posts
> *times* 19 newsgroups means around 1350 overall!
> 
So can we *please* start trimming our Newsgroups: and Followup-To: lines.
Thanks.
--
Douggie - Posting from comp.lang.basic.misc
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From: Douggie Green <Douggie@blissinx.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.clos,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.oberson,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.prolog,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.objective-c,comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: Please help with research
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 02:42:47 GMT
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