On 10/6/2015 5:33 AM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 11:25:21 PM UTC-5, Don Y wrote:

On 10/5/2015 9:21 PM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:

Love these 15 year old threads.

The post was recent. The fact that it was tagged onto an old thread
is immaterial.


Why not just start a new thread instead of dredging up
an o l d one?

No idea. Ask the "n-OP" (new-).

I suspect folks just see something that pertains to their
(current) problem and tack on their own comments -- without
considering dates, etc.

I'm more amused that there are NNTP servers that *retain*
posts for that long! Most groups on the servers that I use
expire articles pretty quickly.