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"N.N. Thayer" (nnthayer@hotmail.com) writes:
> I am highly interested in such a program... but something tells me the
> original author probably isn't reading this... :(
>
Given that you are replying to a message from March of 1998, basically
you shouldn't have even answered.
The fact that google has now stupidly allowed people to reply to old
messages, when up till December you could only reply to messaged less
than a month old, is not a reason to reply to an old message. You even
seem to have taken note of the date of the old message.
To compound the problem, you don't quote what you are replying to, leaving
everyone puzzled about what you are replying to, besides wondering where
the original message is.
Google isn't Usenet, it's just an archive, and many/most people do
not read the newsgroups there. You may see the messages in the thread
all on one page, but the only people who see it that way is those
who read the newsgroup on google.
If you really had to bring up an old subject, you should have figured
out an appropriate subject header, and then asked, starting a completely
new thread.
Note that replying to old messages, especially without quoting, is abuse
of Usenet, if not on your part, then on google's for setting up the new
interface to allow it.
Michael
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