From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-11-28, x  wrote:   
   > Then I see a message at the bottom of your post   
   > that disappears when I try to respond, however   
   > cut and paste allows me to show it.   
      
   Because it was in the "signature" section of the   
   post, i.e.  after the line containing only "--".   
      
   And then you went and put your reply after that,   
   which caused none of your reply to appear when I   
   attempted to "followup" to your reply... but was   
   able to recover it after a bit of finagling....   
      
   >> NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
   > What is a 'NPC'?   
   >   
   > I go to Wikipedia and it seems to show this:   
   > ...   
   >   
   > Role-playing and computer/video games   
   >   
   >      Non-player character   
   >          NPC (meme), an Internet meme   
      
   Bingo.   
      
   --   
   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)