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Message-ID: <94204205851.dave.22710@gilly.cca.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 20:58:52 EST
Organization: The Center for Computational Aesthetics
Reply-To: dave%gi...@paperboy.ids.net
From: d...@gilly.cca.org
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Weeks? hah!!
References: <2i26q0$75l@whale.st.usm.edu>
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chamb...@whale.st.usm.edu (John William Chambless) writes:

>Let's see...off the top of my head, not looking in the archives...
>There's the "how do I remove a file named '-' from comp.unix.wizards...
>( at least a year so far..)
>The " 'move' is less intuitive than 'copy-and-delete' thread from this
>humble newgroup ( 3 or 4 months, and still kicking! Hi, Mike!).
>The "Furrymuck is for lameoid perverts" thread that Joel Furr keeps
>firing back up on alt.fan.furry...
>And let's not forhget the "Imminent Death of the Net" theme, which has echoed
>at least since the first FidoNet gateway...(or was it Compu$erve?)

Those are all recurring, not long-running.

>Do the cyclical "september threads" count as continuous?

It's moot now. September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September
that never ended.

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