On 4/29/2008 2:56 PM, Travis Crump wrote:
> StevieTee wrote:
>> On Apr 29, 1:16 pm, henrysun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>> How could anyone, let alone my brother, be referencing a "mistake made
>>> by me that was immediately removed" when his response was almost 10
>>> hours later?
>>>
>>> Henrysun909
>> I believe that he meant to reply to David Stevenson, not to me....
>>
>> David's tongue-in-cheek response about a "5=2=4=4" hand appears to
>> quote a ****tion of some earlier post on this thread, but at this point
>> in time, there is no post on this thread that brings up a "5=2=4=4
>> hand before David's post. So, apparently, some earlier post was
>> either deleted or edited.
>>
>> Steve Sun
>
> It is still there for me. Any regular poster should be well aware that
> 'delete post' doesn't work, and shouldn't expect people to realize that
> three consecutive posts that only differ by one or two words aren't in
> fact the exact same post accidentally posted three times.
>
> Travis
Oh, is THAT why so many of Boris's posts appear several times with minor
changes? I knew deleting posts didn't work, but as a new-ish Usenetter I
didn't know what poorly-cancelled posts looked like, and it didn't occur
to me that anyone would try to delete, given it's common knowledge that
it doesn't work.
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Cheers,
Alan (San Jose, California, USA)
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