Re: Found the story

On Oct 19, 10:34 pm, "Default User" <defaultuse...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert Carnegie wrote:
On Oct 18, 3:07 am, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Steve wrote:
Sorry, I thought I WAS posting as a belated followup to the
original.
 It would have been clearer if you'd quoted your original question,
thus making it clear which question you were answering.  But I see
what you're saying: from a Google Groups point of view, it's as if
you'd added a new section to a web page.

I don't think it works.  On a similar timescale, Google Groups
Disallows "Reply" to older articles.  I think.  

Which is actually a good thing. After the "Beta" GG rolled out, there
was a rash of GG users finding old threads and replying to years-old
posts as if they were recent. Confusing and annoying.

What Steve should have done was cut and paste a bit of the old post to
provide context, or summarized his original thoughts.

Agreed that that would have been helpful - which is more than we were
in the first place. I suppose he really had forgotten quite how long
it'd been. And on my screen everyone uses the same typeface, which is
confusiog. :-)

And he'd have nto keep the article himself. A link to the original
Google version would also be useful, though - to see how quickly the
actual basis of discussion, the question, was forgotten - but some
people dodobject to Google philosophically.
.

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