Since when is reposting the same time five times a form of politeness?

<RANT CLASS="Netiquette" SUBCLASS="Quoting and Snipping">

Is it just me or have people suddenly started to quote entire articles
*all the time*?!?

No, I am not talking about bandwidth and download times. I access
newsgroups from a school account, on a fast connection, for free. I am
talking about the way I see one person post an image, and then five
people follow up to that and quote the entire image. That's six times I
see the same image. By that time it stops being a nice image and starts
becoming a source of irritation - because I HAVE ALREADY SEEN IT! Give
me something NEW instead!

Sure, occasionally some post doesn't reach Your Specific Server, with
the result that you don't get to see it. There are better ways to solve
that problem than everybody flooding the group with the same thing again
and again, and again, and again, and again...

Usually the good ones get comments. Plenty of them. So it's likely that
you'll see at least one follow-up. That follow-up contains the Message
ID of the original post. You can then use one of the forms on this page
to get that post directly from Deja:

http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/search/

No need to *search*, you get the correct post with one click, and in a
readable format (plain text).

Also, didn't somebody recently post the URL of a "best of aaa" directory
on the web?

</RANT>
<MODIFICATION CLASS="Exceptions to the rule">
Actually, I can imagine a couple of exceptions: Diddles and crossposted
threads. But then, diddles aren't really "reposts", since they add
something new to the images and most of the threads here are not
crossposted (not counting the animation group and the binaries group,
since I see them more as "sub-groups" of aaa).
</MODIFICATION>

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