At 06:44 AM 02/28/2000 -0800, David Honig wrote:
>>How many people do you think know that every message posted do a news
>>group is archieved, forever?
>
>Everyone, nowadays.
>In '86, when I started posting, it was only an abstract suspicion. Now,
>however, its well known --and deja lets
>you search by author. So folks see that messages
>are archived, and then understand why nyms are useful.
No it wasn't just an abstract suspicion - at least not for the people who
knew they were archiving postings..... Flames of mine from 82 are out
there....
The abstract suspicion may have been about "there'll be some useful
way to search this stuff..." :-)
Thanks!
Bill
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