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From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.flame
Subject: Give me a break!!!
Message-ID: <16465@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 10:59:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 10:59:09 1985
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[...]

I resolved to wait until I got ten mail messages flaming me...

A week ago, I goofed and sent a game review to net.games.chess in
addition to net.games.board (I forwarded it via another message which
happened to be posted to both groups).  Since that time, I have got
eleven messages telling me to keep net.games.chess to chess.

I KNOW THAT!!!  I SCREWED UP!  I SAW IT MYSELF THE NEXT DAY.

Might I suggest that the guardians of group purity (in any group)
wait until the SECOND inappropriate message before descending in
droves.  Two messages indicates a trend that may need correcting.
A single message should be assumed to be innocent until proven guilty.

				Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo