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From: Charles@ellson.demon.co.uk (Charles Ellson)
Newsgroups: fido.eur.genealogy,alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy,soc.genealogy.britain
Subject: Re: The Hunt is on
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 04:42:10 GMT
Organization: Home Sweet Home
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On Tuesday, in article
     
     jcprmhna@msn.com "Jphipps" wrote:

> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> Greetings all, this is my first post to this group and I am desparately =
> needing some help.

You said it. ;-)

The first thing to do is to set your software to post in plain-text only
as posting in HTML/MIME/anything else bandwidth-wasting is likely to get
you kill-filed, ignored or, in some newsgroups, filtered out.

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