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19 September, 2002: Amendment to the House Rules
Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly Posted Sep 23, 2002
oy... now i see.... never mind
there's lots in the middle that haven't been moderated.
19 September, 2002: Amendment to the House Rules
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 23, 2002
Lucinda, collapsing them into one post would screw up the post numbering, so if someone had said "check out post xxx", where "xxx" came after the flood, they would now be pointing at the wrong post. How about just campaigning for a shorter moderation message, say :
Post #xyz [Removed]
where "[Removed]" is a link to a page explaining the reasons for removal...? Thus, a block of ten flood messages would squash into ten lines of text... 
19 September, 2002: Amendment to the House Rules
Yeliab {h2g2as} Posted Sep 24, 2002
But a 1 line message still uses 5 real lines, see?
19 September, 2002: Amendment to the House Rules
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 24, 2002
A moderator message wouldn't have to. If it's "Removed" there's no need to waste space with Subject or Poster, and you don't need reply buttons etc. Just one line of text and an ... 
19 September, 2002: Amendment to the House Rules
David R. Litwin Posted Sep 25, 2002
Indeed, I've had a record 17 simulposts one after the other in the same conversation. I'll try to find it.
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- 81: Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly (Sep 23, 2002)
- 82: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 23, 2002)
- 83: Yeliab {h2g2as} (Sep 24, 2002)
- 84: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 24, 2002)
- 85: David R. Litwin (Sep 25, 2002)
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