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From: kelleyb@austin.ibm.com (Kelley Boylan)
Subject: Re: Monitors - should they be kept on 24 hours a day???
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 17:14:10 GMT
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> > > Research has shown that the majority of the time that the United
> > > States' 30 to 35 million personal computers are on, they are not
> 
> > > [More quote deleted]
> 
> Ok, I have a question... why?  Why do people copy the article, and the 
> only new thing they add to the post is there name?  I'm not picking on 
> this person, I've seen a few of these.  Is it just a mistake?  Am I 
> missing something?  Is it some unknown net-equette I missed somewhere?
> I skip over all the quoted material, since I've already read it, and look 
> for the non-quoted material, and all I get is the name addition.  Is this 
> supposed to me "I agree", or "I second this" or what?
> 
> Sorry...
> 
> Just wondering if I missed something somewhere along the line...

I copy relevant articles like this and post'em on local BBSes.  Not
everyone has newsgroup access.  ;-)

-Kelley-
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