From: bill@server2.cs.scranton.edu   
      
   In article ,   
   	Michael Black  writes:   
   > On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, Bill Gunshannon wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article <53B2C0B0.622.usenet_cstandy@bbs.retroarchive.org>,   
   >> 	"Gene Buckle"  writes:   
   >>>   To: joelhowell3   
   >>> joelhowell3 wrote:   
   >>>> From Newsgroup: comp.sys.tandy   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On Thursday, July 17, 1997 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, DAY wrote:   
   >>>>> Anybody interested in a 20 megabyte Bernoulli Box?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Do you still have this?   
   >>>> Does anyone out there have   
   >>>> any of these 10 meg drive?   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm quite sure that the poster has been waiting these long 17 years for   
   you to   
   >>> ask if he still has this.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is it too much to ask for people to read the original posting date   
   >>> of the messages they're replying to?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Or track down what idiot run system is spewing this old stuff and cut   
   >> off their newsfeed.   
   >>   
   > It's google.   
      
   I suspected as much.  But because my newserver is run by competent   
   people I never see any of these old messages, only the replies idiots   
   make to them.   
      
   >   
   > As I've said endlessly, originally they had a 30 day limit on replies,   
   > after that replies were disabled.  Then they changed the interface, to   
   > favor their own groups, and put the bug in.  I know I complained, and   
   > eventually the bug was fixed.  Then the interface changed again, and the   
   > bug was back, and remains so, now some years later.   
   >   
   > I'd almost think it's deliberate.   
      
   I still say it is time to get their upstream feeds to drop them.   
   That;s how USENET always worked in the past, I see no reason not   
   to continue that practice.   
      
   bill   
      
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