XPost: alt.comp.linux, alt.comp.software.thunderbird   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:26:59 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 2/10/2026 6:57 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Doesn't every thread in every newsgroup go that way ...... if it   
   >> 'lives' long enough??   
   >   
   > Actually, no.   
      
   Yes, it does and did. I’ve been on Usenet (off and on) since about the   
   early-to-mid 1990s, and “Usenet topic drift” was a running joke even   
   back then.   
      
   The moderated ones could be kept on-topic simply by the moderators’   
   ability to reject irrelevant postings. But even that could be   
   subverted without great difficulty.   
      
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