Newsgroups: can.general
Path: utzoo!telly!tmsoft!mason
From: mason@tmsoft.uucp (Dave Mason)
Subject: Call for Calm, Re: Repeated messages, Haunted News-feeds
Message-ID: <1989Aug3.115302.12807@tmsoft.uucp>
Followup-To: can.general
Reply-To: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Organization: TM Software Associates Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Distribution: can
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 11:53:02 GMT

If you see your favourite antagonist repeating arguments that you've
already brilliantly refuted, please check the Date: of the posting (the
v command in rn will show the full header) and the Path:.  If it's
more than a week or so old, and/or has
	tmsoft!mcl!ncc!...!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu
in the path, please ignore it as long lost news that's come back to
haunt us.

  It appears no-one in the Toronto backbone is keeping 2 weeks of
history file any more, so this has also occurred in other groups than
can.general.  In the other groups, the characteristic is a Path:
that's 20+ sites long.

  If the article isn't that old, then your favourite antagonist is
rehashing old material and you should feel obligated to flame them
viciously ...  such as point fingers at their heritage, disparage
the province in which they were born/live ... oops, I just realized
that that's what the articles with *content* have been lately :-). 

	../Dave