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   danny burstein to Drew Lawson   
   Re: Dinah Shore + black baby?   
   11 Jan 19 22:14:26   
   
   From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) writes:   
      
   >Because, while Google is staged to control the world, its nerdboys   
   >have never been able to figure out how to handle a Usenet archive.   
      
   >If they would put a "This is over N years old. Are you sure you   
   >want to reply?" screen in, most of these would go away, without   
   >costing hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars.   
      
   >Of course, without responses to 17 year-old postings, there would   
   >hardly be any Usenet traffic at all.   
      
   17 years old?  That's about 2 Ed Rice's, right?   
      
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