In message , Mary Fisher
writes

p.s. I tried sending this last night, my sent items box says it went
but it didn't appear on my ng screen. If this is a duplicate I
apologise.

It is a duplicate. (I replied to the original.) If one of your messages
doesn't come back to you, one strategy is to visit groups.google.com, or
any other public web interface to UseNet - perhaps GardenBanter has its
uses :-) - and see if it has appeared there.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley