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

[Lothan]

I don't think you're inferring this, Art. I distinctly remember the same 
order coming down from on top. I don't remember the specific reasons for it, 
though. I vaguely recall something about it being easier for new members 
since it would reduce the backlog of messages they would have to wade 
through to "catch up", but it seems there must have been something more to 
it than that.

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From: "Arthur Flexser" <flexser at fiu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 11:15 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] 10 years of Delphi posts (1985-1995)

> 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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>> ~ Roger Taylor
>>
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