Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban, news.admin.misc From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:55:58 GMT Subject: Old news (was Re: Mnemonics...) bwil...@austin.ibm.com (Brad Wilson) writes: +Now, I have a question ... [details deleted] sys...@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes: +That doesn't seem likely, since .... [details deleted] twc...@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes: +Uh, Wayne, much as we appreciate your thoughts, but you know, Brad +posted this in December, and two famous people I know (well, maybe +1.5), Larry Doering and Derek Tearne posted replies... dated 11 +December 1992 and 13 December 1992, respectively. Are you having +like, a really slow feed down there? ... It's worse than that. Wayne posted his reply on 18 December 1992, and it appeared on alt.folkore.urban that weekend. But someone changed the date to 27 January 1993 and reinjected it into the news stream. They did that to nine other messages of his, too. At least on AFU Wayne seems to be the only victim. In case you're interested, I include the the message-ids and dates at the end of this message. The prime suspects are copper!mercury.cair.du.edu!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu, since they all appear in the duplicates and don't appear in the originals. ObUL: Resubmitting old news with new dates is happening to the entire contents of several newsgroups, all the time. But the delay is several years, so we don't recognize the duplicates, we just feel deja vu. Sometimes we are flami^Whaving discussions with people who have left the net entirely, or even died. Of course, with the rate of increase in Usenet volume, a prior year's traffic is only a small fraction of this year's. Dan Hoey Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil ================================================================ <7oa1VB4w1...@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz>: 27 Jan 93 02:39:39 GMT / Fri, 18 Dec 92 13:44:41 NZST : 27 Jan 93 02:40:08 GMT / Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:51:36 NZST : 27 Jan 93 02:40:14 GMT / Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:57:22 NZST : 27 Jan 93 02:39:42 GMT / Fri, 18 Dec 92 13:59:34 NZST : 27 Jan 93 02:39:34 GMT / Fri, 18 Dec 92 13:43:12 NZST : 27 Jan 93 02:39:44 GMT / Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:24:08 NZST : 27 Jan 93 02:39:52 GMT / Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:36:24 NZST : 27 Jan 93 02:39:59 GMT / Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:37:57 NZST : 27 Jan 93 02:40:06 GMT / Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:47:31 NZST : 27 Jan 93 02:40:18 GMT / 19 Dec 92 00:32:19 GMT