Jack Allison wrote:
Jon Kraus wrote:

Sometimes if I fat finger something and I catch it after it gets
posted
I go back and do a "Edit as New" to the post and then delete the
old
one. My newsgroup viewer (Netscape) doesn't show the deleted one
but
maybe others do... Since I fat finger a lot it probably looks like
a lot
of double postings... I'l try to be more careful...
Hmmm, interesting Jon. I'm using Mozilla as my news reader (IMHO,
way
better than Outlook express that I've previously used) and what I
sometimes see in my tree-view of posts is two identical posts from
you.
As I go back and look at this thread now though, I don't see them.
Strange.

Not that strange. What's happening is Jon sends the first post,
which takes off into Usenet and starts appearing on other servers.
Then he sends the corrected post, which is a separate item and also
gets distributed to the Usenet servers. That's when you see two
seemingly identical posts. The second post is followed by a cancel of
the first post, which (eventually) removes the original post from some
servers. Some people might always see both posts, as some Usenet
servers do not accept cancel commands.
John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)