From: Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
      
   candycanearter07    
   writes:   
   > Keith Thompson  wrote at 21:33 this Sunday   
   (GMT):   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Can you set your newsreader to mark articles before a date as read? I'd   
   > imagine setting it to do that with everything before this year could   
   > help clean it up.   
      
   There might be some way to do it.  Since I use Gnus, it should at   
   least be possible to write something in Emacs Lisp to do the job.   
      
   But at least for me it's not worth it.  The old articles are in   
   a small handful of threads (5 of them if I'm counting correctly)   
   which are easily ignored.  I've already skipped them.   
      
   What's more difficult is filtering out the thread spawned by my   
   post and the followups to the old articles.  Oh well.   
      
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