"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message
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He may well be using the new Google service, which seems to ignore
accepted Usenet convention.

HE is (see the headers). Outlook express has done this for years, sadly it's
the only usenet client approved for use here at work and takes a mighty
effort to fix it for every reply. At least I remember to snip irellevent
problems.

Of course Jason's newsreader should thread the messages accordingly, where
it's easy to see the original post.

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Everything above is the personal opinion of the author, and nothing to do
with where he works and all that lovely disclaimery stuff.
Posted in his lunch hour too.