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From: gcf@althea.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Long dead subjects, was (Re: Signature files (LONG))
Keywords: Slooooooow new feed
Message-ID: <302@althea.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 03:18:02 GMT
References: <19611@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: gcf@althea.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Organization: Beauty and the Beast
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In article <19611@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
)In article <1989Sep6.115246.17066@gec-mi-at.co.uk> clark@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Peter Clark) writes:
)>In article <18950@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
)>><deleted>
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)>This I find unneccessary, downright rude, and definately not fit 
)>for public consumption.
)
)Yup, that sounds like my stuff alright.
)
)>I refrain, with difficulty, from further comment.
)
)Obviously you refrain with difficulty, it took you damn near a month
)to do this refraining.
)
)Todays lesson, newusers: 1) Check out the rest of the clump of messages
)before you respond. 2) Don't bother responding to a message thats about
)a month old. Chances are somebody has already said what you were going to
)say.

Don't you feel that a news article improves with age?  When they're
fresh they're so, well, shallow and flighty -- but after they've
been around for two or three weeks, and have attracted flies and
followups, _then_ they become more, well, _interesting_.

Some news sites help us out with this.  By the time you see
something, the message is already well on its way to the bloom
of maturity.

And by the way, if you miss that peak of perfection and the article
drops off the edge of the universe, don't worry, it'll be back
again.  Every issue rises from the dead about once every six months,
and you can use your old articles all over again.  By the way,
how's poor David doing?
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