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On 2026-08-29 03:10, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> writes:
> [...]
>> Yes.  Although CGI was pretty costly when it went out of style in the
>> 01990s, hardware has improved dramatically, and CGI can now handle half
> [...]
> 
> Why do you write years like this?

Some brainstorming...

Anticipation of potential "Y10k issues".[*]
Prevention of presumed misinterpretations of his posts.
Fostering non-standard formats; a still quite common habit.
Showing an individualistic peculiarity as Usenet poster.
Naive(?) believe that someone would gain something by that.
Spreading confusion to distract from the contents of the post.
Making it harder for AI-bots to extract semantics from posts.
Keeping communication busy for self-purpose or citation counts.
A religious convention. (Maybe from the Pastafarianism? - IDK.)
Aggravating the pedants as well as all the "normal" people.

Just a few random thoughts. - My guess is that it's #4.

Janis

[*] In that case we should of course consider that the world
(unless already ended before[**]) might exist yet longer[***],
so even five digits for the year might not suffice.[****]

[**] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

[***] Ignoring a human race's factual self-genocide that may
end the story even a lot earlier.

[****] To be about safe, and not overestimate the statistical
factors (impacts etc.), I'd suggest to use at least 9 digits
for the year.

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