Re: Apollo One, the FBI, and Scott Grissom

From: Peter Stickney (peter_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:56:25 -0400

In article <ca6sff$5h6$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>,
        "Paul Blay" <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> writes:
> "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote ...
>> "LaDonna Wyss" <hpywife927@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:4821518f.0406081817.2d2fac53@posting.google.com...
>> > "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> wrote in
>> message news:<6lqxc.56776>
>> > Since you know this is a Google ID, why don't you use it? I'm under
>> > no obligation to use "Usenet"; if you're too lazy to look for the
>> > message, obviously you don't care very much about the facts you claim
>> > to want to know.
>>
>> Umm, you realize every post you've made has been to Usenet. You're simply
>> using Google as an interface.
>>
>> I personally don't care about the specific message. I was simply trying to
>> give you accurate information, which you clearly don't want. Your loss, not
>> mine.
>
> Are Google ID's (as the rnum is being called) even conserved? It's the selm
> parameter which identifies which post is shown.

No, not at all - Message are appended to their particular subthreads,
which can branch at any depth in the list. (There als isn't a single
Google Server - depending on where you are, and what the traffic load
is, you can be connected to one of a number of servers, and their
storage isn't necessarily in sync. 

-- 
Pete Stickney
 A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
 bad measures.  -- Daniel Webster

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