In article ,
Jim Webster writes:
what is interesting is how little effect it actually has. Whilst the
automatics may have trouble sorting it the human eye can just skim down
through the downloaded headers and for some reason the 'real' ones tended to
cluster together.

Your newsreader probably sorts threads by the time of the first (or
only) post in the thread. That would tend to cluster the flood posts
together, thus having the effect of a;so clustering the "real" ones
together.
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John Hall Weep not for little Leonie
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench
Just think how it's improved her French. Harry Graham (1874-1936)