[Coco] 10 years of Delphi posts (1985-1995)

[Arthur Flexser]

Now that I think about it, I may have a dim recollection of Jim Reed telling
me that Delphi had demanded that the CoCo SIG cut down substantially on the
number of messages it contained by deleting a lot of them.  But, the power
of suggestion being what it is, I may simply be inferring that this might
have happened rather than truly recalling it.  Could be, though, that the
deletions were done to forestall Delphi from yanking the CoCo SIG
altogether.

Art

On 10/3/09, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:
>
> At 09:12 PM 10/3/2009, you wrote:
>
>> I wondered about that, but it seemed to me that the message referenced in
>> the "Re: Msg..." was almost NEVER in the list of messages listed below the
>> one presently displayed.  Are you sure your searches are turning up ALL
>> messages under a particular subject?  I know that many messages are
>> missing,
>> but it doesn't seem like SO many should be, unless somebody deleted a very
>> large number of them after I stopped using Delphi.
>>
>
> A lot of them were obviously deleted.  My program looks at the Re:
> reference # and then searches for that ID.  Since the IDs are sequential,
> I've never seen a message reference a higher ID.
>
> I've even gone into the text file and used Find to look up these
> questionable references, and couldn't find the parent message ID.  Thousands
> of messages appear to be missing.
>
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