From: layrton@panix.com   
      
   On 1/25/2019 7:36 PM, Drew Lawson wrote:   
   > In article    
   > 	Lee Ayrton  writes:   
   >> On 1/11/2019 5:06 PM, Drew Lawson wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Of course, without responses to 17 year-old postings, there would   
   >>> hardly be any Usenet traffic at all.   
   >>   
   >> I'm intrigued, but not handy enough to understand how a 17 year old post   
   >> got back into the feed as a new post.  I confess that I hadn't thought   
   >   
   > Sorry for being more obtuse than usual.  *You* did not respond to   
   > a 17 year-old message.  The message you responded to was from January   
   > 2019.  However, *that* message was responding to a 1997 thread, of   
   > course with no quoted context, since civilization has fallen into   
   > ruin and no one knows such conventions anymore.   
   >   
   > Drew "and get that poorly quoted social media off of my lawn!" Lawson   
   >   
      
   Ah. That makes better sense to me.   
      
   In my occasional nostalgia-driven visits to UsenetLand I get the sense   
   that various servers have been wet-belching small chunks of the distant   
   past and presenting them as new.   
      
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