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Re: Q: Anyone using a Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1776 monitor

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, jenkinsperformance@gmail.com wrote:

> Greetings from the future! I am still using my Vivatron 1776 
> continuously and without trouble. I hope you went with it in that build!
>
Just another idiot vandalizing usenet.

That famous thread where Linus announces Linux?  It's been vandalized way 
too many times, idiots seeing a timeline at google and realizing they can 
deface a historic thread.  So they post, and each one doing it acts like 
they are the first ones to think of it.  It happened the first time google 
created the bug that allowed replies to posts older than 30 days, and I 
know I complained then, and the bug was fixed.  But another iteration of 
the "googles group" interface and the bug was back, and it's been there 
for a long time now.  People vandalize the famous threads, and they reply 
to other threads when they have no reason to do so.  Either start a new 
thread, or don't bother.  They are clueless and have no idea what usenet 
is, so they think it's a "webforum", and thus blindly do damage to usenet. 
And a lot of the time, they don't quote the message they are replying to 
so what they are saying isn't often obvious, and they can't even reply 
properly, so it looks like some idiot is starting a nonsense thread like 
this, except they are replying to a post from 1996, when the post was 
topical, and he got what was probably enough replies, and useful too.

Google has done damage to usenet.

   Michael

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Q: Anyone using a Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1776 monitor jenkinsperformance@gmail.com - 2018-10-15 20:56 -0700
  Re: Q: Anyone using a Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1776 monitor Cows are Nice <nice@cows.moo> - 2018-10-16 15:40 -0700
    Re: Q: Anyone using a Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1776 monitor Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-10-17 04:32 +0200
      Re: Q: Anyone using a Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1776 monitor scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2018-10-18 21:45 +0000
        Re: Q: Anyone using a Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1776 monitor Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-10-19 00:11 +0200
  Re: Q: Anyone using a Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1776 monitor Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net> - 2018-10-18 22:31 -0400
    Re: Q: Anyone using a Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1776 monitor Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2018-10-19 20:00 +0000

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