Michael Black wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

You replied to a 17 year old message.

I've seen replies to older messages, but in this case, it's only been 7
years. 17 would have the original post in 1998.


You're right. I had seen a 16 year old message replied to on another
group a few minutes earlier, and wasn't paying close attention.


And in this case, I seem to have missed the original post, so yes, it's
amusing to see the other replies, which clearly came because of the first
post.

It's often interesting to look at the original thread, because these old
post resurrectors often don't. They think they have something to add, yet
the original thread often covers the whole thing.

Michael