Re: Direct Quote from the RM

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Nov 20, 7:01 pm, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "anon" <a...@anon.org> wrote in message
>
> news:ZtA0j.33469$if6.26651@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> ...
>
> > You did not need to post three copies of you post! I read the first one.
>
> I didn't intend to post more than one; the first and second attempts failed
> during the posting and I didn't realize that they had gotten through despite
> the error. Since the newsreader sends before reading, I didn't notice the
> multiple postings until later. I suppose it's what I get for feeding the
> troll...

Well, your explanation for why the post showed up three times only
showed up twice, so I guess that's an improvement.  :)

This is a big problem with Google Groups, which I use to post.  Too
often, I write my post and send it, and Google eventually comes back
with a message like "There was an error in posting, try again later",
only to find out that the post actually did make it out to Usenet and
I didn't really need to retry.  It doesn't appear that you're using
Google to post, but apparently whatever method you're using suffers
from the same glitch.

                        -- Adam