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On 20/11/2013 17:12, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:29:54 AM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 20/11/2013 15:34, Alister wrote:
>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:14:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> must be a strange quirk of pan & turned off hide to system tray & allow
>>>>> multiple instances.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm. Hard to know, but I can imagine that having multiple instances
>>>> MIGHT cause a problem. But if that's confirmed (maybe fire up three
>>>> copies and then post to a test newsgroup??), I'd be reporting that as a
>>>> bug in Pan.
>>>>
>>>> ChrisA
>>>
>>> As a quick test lets see how may times this one arrives
>>>
>>
>> Three.  You're not Greek are you, and using a typical shabby Nazi trick
>> to hide behind an ntlworld email address in order to spam us? :)
>>
>> Mark Lawrence
>
> Nazi?  Perhaps we could stick to more appropriate analogies?
>
> --Ned.
>

It's an excellent analogy that I've used before, hence the smiley. 
Clearly you don't do any research before bothering to say anything.

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence