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|    J. P. Gilliver (John) to All    |
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|    01 May 18 22:23:16    |
      From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk              We've just had a post in another newsgroup I take (UMRA), from a gmail       user (so I _assume_ in response to a post s/he'd found with a search or       something).              The first line of the post was              On Sunday, October 29, 2000 at 3:01:33 AM UTC+10:30, Stephen wrote:              , then the original post (asking about the words to a song), then the       poster's new text, of which the first line was               Hi Stephen, I dont know when you posted this entry,              so it's fairly clear that, as we'd long suspected, the date of the post       to which they're "replying" is not visible to them, or at least is far       from obvious.              (This poster seemed, as usual, to be under the impression he was sending       a private reply to "Stephen", as well.)       --       J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf              You'll need to have this fish in your ear. (First series, fit the first.)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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