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from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

I promise you that I did nothing to cause that top posting. If you look at
the birth of the thread, you will notice that it was the initiator, RR, who
did it. Most of the subsequent correspondents like me, and, of course you
as well (twice on 07/08, tut,tut) just continued without looking at the
crossposting list.
The trouble with *not* following on with crossposting after an initially
crossposted note is that you don't know which of the ng's the oribinator
actually reads. As sure as I am sitting here, he/she does *not* read all
the ng's to which he/she has crossposted. However, I agree entirely with
you that it is a lousy habit.

Most of the groups I subscribe to have a killfile filter for two
crossposts or more. I forgot, or for some reason did not include in my
plonking, URG.

However, those items I have crossposted were intended to have been, as
my newreader defaults to 'reply to group', and I have to make a concious
choice to crosspost.

Good, innit.

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