On 6/29/20 2:39 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 06/29/2020 09:15 AM, Wade Garrett wrote:
>> On 6/29/20 12:06 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
>>> On 06/28/2020 03:02 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> In article >,
>>>> * > wrote:
>>>>> LMAO a blank webpage from Walmart saying it can't be found, looks
>>>>> like you failed.
>>>>
>>>> It possible that webpage existed fourteen years ago when the message
>>>> you are
>>>> replying to was posted.
>>>>
>>>> Is the google interface so bad that people don't realize they are
>>>> replying
>>>> to messages that are decades old?
>>>
>>> I think it's more likely that stupid people just don't look at the
>>> dates.* Is it perhaps overkill to assume that the only people who read
>>> usenet via googlegroups are stupid?* Based on what I've seen, I think
>>> not.
>>>
>> I don't know about the stupidity angle.
>
> If you use google groups rather than a REAL newsreader,* I might be
> willing to assume ignorance rather than stupidity, but that kind of
> depends on the post.
>
>> You see that sort of thing on TV
>> and other news websites all the time...showing a story that actually ran
>> last week, last month or last year either with no date on it or it's
>> there but in small, light gray mouse print.
>>
>> Ya' sorta assume that what you're reading is current...
>
> Indeed.* It's not like we're hauling old newspapers out of the attic.
>
>
Yeah, that's true.

Some of the newsgroups I follow occasionally have forwards/reposts from
GG. I've wondered if some of them are posted from Forrest Gump sock
puppet accounts!

--
"Stupid is as stupid does."
- Forrest Gump