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|    Chris M. Thomasson to Keith Thompson    |
|    Re: Flood of old articles    |
|    02 Nov 25 17:34:15    |
      From: chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com              On 11/2/2025 1:33 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:       > Today a number of very old articles, from around 2006 to 2010,       > have been posted on comp.lang.c with new article numbers.       >       > This is apparently the result of a glitch on eternal-september.org.       > The openwatcom.* hierarchy had been removed, but it was restored       > today. The reposted articles were cross-posted to comp.lang.c and       > various newsgroups under openwatcom.*. Similarly, 20 old articles       > reappeared in comp.std.c.       >       > There's probably nothing to be done about it. Just pay attention       > to the date on any articles before posting followups.       >              I noticed that as well. I thought it might be a form of spam in a sense?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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