I believe someone could write a thesis on the topic of a question that
has already been asked hundreds of times in a newsgroup. People tend to
ask the same question over and over without first consulting the
newsgroup to see if their question has already been asked and answered.
Yet we know that after a certain amount of time, the question will stop
being asked.

How does the group collectively decide to stop asking the question? What
is the process by which a large and disparate group of people somehow
arrive at same conclusion? Clearly they are finding the answer to the
question otherwise...where? and what triggers this process?

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Ritter197 wrote:
When I get an e-mail message and a given (blue) hyperlink in it, I can click
on again and again, but the hyperlink does not get me where it promises to
take me.

I have no other problems. Do you know what I need to do?