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   Athel Cornish-Bowden to Joe Makowiec   
   Re: unsubscribe   
   10 May 18 18:01:52   
   
   From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2018-05-10 15:57:02 +0000, Joe Makowiec said:   
      
   > On 09 May 2018 in soc.genealogy.britain, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >   
   >> Maybe it's just my imagination but I seem to have seen fewer spam   
   >> messages since doing so. I've started to do that in soc.history as   
   >> well, and there seem to have been fewer such messages there as well.   
   >   
   > Post hoc ergo propter hoc error:   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc   
      
   I don't think Steve was claiming propter hoc. He said "maybe it's just   
   my imagination..."   
      
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