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   J. P. Gilliver (John) to All   
   More on (apparent) Google Groups user in   
   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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