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People do NOT understand Usenet!

See also Barbarians at the Gates

From: tony@aplawrence.com
Subject: Re: find string in files
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:23:52 +0000 (UTC)
References: <3bf2b2cf.0307251047.24bf02fd@posting.google.com>
<20030725190801.GB24367@jpradley.jpr.com>
<bgmhjh$q207s$1@ID-161723.news.uni-berlin.de>
<20030804213358.GC5409@jpradley.jpr.com>
<bgnhau$pufns$1@ID-161723.news.uni-berlin.de> 

lallous <lallous@lgwm.org> wrote:
>Hello JP,

>You have a point....
>Now I realized that your news reader doesn't show you the messages in a tree
>like structure, if that wasn't the case then you could have just see your
>previous post and my original post just below each other. (same as Google
>Groups display)

AAARGH!

No.  That is NOT NECESSARILY TRUE.

First: News articles expire.  With the advent of very large hard drives, 
servers keep articles around longer than they used to, but you 
cannot assume that anyone has a particular message.

Second:  News articles get to servers late, out of sequence and sometimes 
never at all.  News is much faster and more reliable than it ever was,
but you cannot assume that anyone has a specific message or that the 
messages are in the same order you see them.

Third:  Some people read News by email gateways or other indirect means.
Everything above applies to them in spades.

We all have different views of the world.  Nowhere is that more true than 
in the world of News.

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