On 18 Dec 2006, "WavyDavy" wrote:

2. Why would someone add back in a certain newsgroup to the x-post

To get the last word, perhaps :-

Mostly because I had posted to the groups where the original appeared,
set a follow-up to go nowhere (expecting the spammer to follow-up) but
you then decided to prune one of the groups, but your reason for doing
so was not clear, nor described.