I'm just interested as to why you felt it necessary to duplicate my
post, unless of course your news server didn't carry it.....
First of all, I don't know that I "felt it necessary to duplicate
[your] post." I may have replied to a message that you had
already replied to; I may have said the same thing you did, or I
may have said something slightly different.
First of all, please recognize that messages aren't necessarily
propagated to all servers in Usenet at the same rate. I will
sometimes reply to a message saying the same thing someone else
has because I haven't yet gotten the other person's message. I
will also sometimes do it because, even if the other reply was
already there, I simply didn't notice it.
Even if I see someone else's post, I also sometimes reply saying
not *quite* the same thing, because I want to say it in a
different way that I feel makes a point clearer, or stress
something that another poster didn't. It never hurts for someone
asking a question to get more than one correct reply; a second
way of explaining something may be helpful, and it may add
assurance that the reply is correct.
Finally, when an answer is a matter of opinion (that's not true
in this case) rather than a clear-cut right-or-wrong issue, I'll
often add my vote to what I consider the correct response.
Which of these situations is pertinent in this case, I have no
idea. I don't remember, and I no longer have your post here to
refer to; I don't keep already-read messages. If I simply didn't
notice your message and said essentially the same thing you did,
then I apologize. It's happened before, and considering the time
it takes to get through all the messages in a newsgroup this
large, it will undoubtedly happen again.
I should also mention that there are some messages I *never* see
because the poster is killfiled here, because the message is
future dated and removed by my news server, because there is a
large attachment, or because there was just a glitch somewhere in
Usenet. I mention those points only for the sake of completeness;
I doubt that any of them are likely to be pertinent in your case.