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This is in the past. There was a period of at least six months when it was happening. I want to say last year, but maybe it was the year before. Google meddled with their interface, and one of the things that they changed (or I'd like to think was simply an oversight) was that ability to reply to old messages, while previously they had allowed replies to messages that were less than 30 days old.
Jim Mulder there are many cases of searching list of n elements ... which can result in non-linear overhead increases. this typically happens when the frequency of searching is possibly related to load...
This "feature" eventually went away, so this is just academic at this point.
But yes, people would reply, and odd messages would appear in the newsgroup. Since another thing google muddled with was to default to no quoting, there was a rash of messages that had no context. And while Usenet can be slow sometimes, the messages would stand out since the original message was nowhere to be seen, and there were no other replies.
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It was only when you knew that this was happening that you could go to google and see the thread that the message belonged to. Since google is an archive, you'd see the full thread in one place, and every time I checked, it was indeed the case that someone had replied to an old message without noticing the date of the original message, or maybe not caring. In the context of the google archive, it maybe didn't matter, but in the case of regular newsgroup participants, obviously the people they were replying to likely were no longer around.
Google had decided that 30 days was a reasonable time to allow replies, and that's what they reverted to when they finally fixed the problem.
I've seen this happen elsewhere, though not going back ten years, because some newsservers do apparently have long retention time. And of course, there seems to be no reason that I couldn't dig out that message I saved a decade ago for my own purposes, and by replying to it, issue a reply. But that doesn't normally happen because people need the old message in order to reply to.
Common sense seems to take care of the problem normally. If you are just sluggish in replying, at some reasonable point you realize the conversation has moved on. And if it's something you really feel a need to comment on, you can always start a new thread.
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