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|    The Real Bev to Wade Garrett    |
|    Re: Wal-Mart Auto Tire Scam    |
|    29 Jun 20 11:39:39    |
      From: bashley101@gmail.com              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.                     --       Cheers, Bev        "A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person        or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even        possibly incurring losses." -- C.M.Cipolla              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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