samsloan wrote:

I wonder why Rob ("The Robust Internet Front-Money Swindler") feels
that he gets some satisfaction by over-writing other people's threads.

What you are seeing is an artifact of you using the Google groups
website instead of accessing Usenet directly with a newsreader on
a NNTP server. Blame Google, not users using Usenet as it was
indended to be used.

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Guy Macon
http://www.guymacon.com/