From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 03/02/2026 12:21, Keith Thompson wrote:   
      
   > You seem to be dredging up old posts of mine (this one is from   
   > about 10 months ago) and finding reasons to complain about them,   
   > usually because the fact that I expressed an opinion bothers you.   
   > I encourage you to knock it off.   
      
      
   Could be because a wisdom or claim he thinks is a problem for /other/   
   people appears uncontested in archives.   
      
   usenet is not a transient chat, it is a persistent knowledge share;   
   there are essentially infinite readers over an essentially infinite   
   spacetime.   
      
   That's why necroposting is not sensibly verboten outside of a charter.   
      
      
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   Tristan Wibberley   
      
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