Re: Soft PC ?? Which one

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Soft PC ?? Which one
Date	2015-03-24 17:25 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<cndl03Fbpl7U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2015-03-24, John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 3/22/15   PDT 5:45 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>
>> Nope. The original post is from April 1993, as shown here:
>>
>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.sys.mac.apps/9T3KpXEt4o0/6E_O9DI6FroJ>
>>
>
> Of course the OP's headers have that info, but to get to it you had to 
> go to Google. My question was is there info in the headers of the first 
> post of this thread that's this C. only that indicated how long ago the 
> post was made?
>
> I think the answer is: You looked it up, unless your NNTP server has 
> very long retention, or you have arranged to save every post for the 
> last several decades!

Correct. The post wasn't on my news server, which was the first clue it
was very old. Looking it up on Google Groups told me the rest.

-- 
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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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  Re: Soft PC ?? Which one Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-20 13:03 +0000
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      Re: Soft PC ?? Which one Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 12:25 +0000
        Re: Soft PC ?? Which one sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-03-26 00:42 +0000
    Re: Soft PC ?? Which one John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-03-22 13:39 -0700
      Re: Soft PC ?? Which one Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 23:45 +0000
        Re: Soft PC ?? Which one John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-03-22 17:26 -0700
          Re: Soft PC ?? Which one Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-23 00:45 +0000
            Re: Soft PC ?? Which one John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-03-24 09:34 -0700
              Re: Soft PC ?? Which one Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-24 17:25 +0000

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