From: wade@cooler.net   
      
   On 6/29/20 2:39 PM, The Real Bev wrote:   
   > On 06/29/2020 09:15 AM, Wade Garrett wrote:   
   >> On 6/29/20 12:06 PM, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >>> On 06/28/2020 03:02 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>>> In article <83eff820-2be1-4502-8d24-2e7a1883e081o@googlegroups.com>,   
   >>>>   <7yreclipse@gmail.com> wrote:   
   >>>>> LMAO a blank webpage from Walmart saying it can't be found, looks   
   >>>>> like you failed.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It possible that webpage existed fourteen years ago when the message   
   >>>> you are   
   >>>> replying to was posted.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Is the google interface so bad that people don't realize they are   
   >>>> replying   
   >>>> to messages that are decades old?   
   >>>   
   >>> I think it's more likely that stupid people just don't look at the   
   >>> dates.  Is it perhaps overkill to assume that the only people who read   
   >>> usenet via googlegroups are stupid?  Based on what I've seen, I think   
   >>> not.   
   >>>   
   >> I don't know about the stupidity angle.   
   >   
   > If you use google groups rather than a REAL newsreader,  I might be   
   > willing to assume ignorance rather than stupidity, but that kind of   
   > depends on the post.   
   >   
   >> You see that sort of thing on TV   
   >> and other news websites all the time...showing a story that actually ran   
   >> last week, last month or last year either with no date on it or it's   
   >> there but in small, light gray mouse print.   
   >>   
   >> Ya' sorta assume that what you're reading is current...   
   >   
   > Indeed.  It's not like we're hauling old newspapers out of the attic.   
   >   
   >   
   Yeah, that's true.   
      
   Some of the newsgroups I follow occasionally have  forwards/reposts from   
   GG. I've wondered if some of them are posted from Forrest Gump sock   
   puppet accounts!   
      
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   "Stupid is as stupid does."   
   		- Forrest Gump   
      
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