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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Ritual Memory / Will Dockery
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:07:07 +0000
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:13:19 +0000, MummyChunk wrote:

>> Will-Dockery wrote:
>
>> Ritual Memory.
>>
>> If these words of love
>> fell into bad timing
>> put it away
>> like a flower in a book.
>>
>> This place has become a valley
>> all is lost here in the rain.
>> but I am older and wiser
>> and understand the tricks of life.
>>
>> How sadness and soft light
>> are a natural form of life.
>> As is cold rain
>> in the later part of November.
>>
>> I feel so old yet not wise
>> foolhardy as the day I was  born.
>> Put me away
>> I make a better memory.
>>
>> I will not rip it out of here
>> it is an honest poem.
>> So I will not edit it
>> why would I even want to do that?
>>
>> -Will Dockery
>>
>> (One of my better obscure older poems, bookmarked.)
>
>
> I just used the Edit function on JLA Forums for this post, as an
> experiment.
>
> It will be interesting to see if the edit takes before the post is
> delivered
> to the rest of Usenet.
>
>  😏
>
>
> My experience at JLA is edits only appear on USENET if the edit is done
> before
> it is sent out from them.  I suggested to the admin to disallow edits
> for that
> reason to keep consistency but I see that they still allow it.
>
> If you edit before it is sent out, then the edit will appear on USENET.

So the posts don't go out from JLA Forums immediately, which I think
they do from Nova BBS?

http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655

> This is a response to the post seen at:
> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=683234583#683234583