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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: (NovaBBS) The only time  i see the [Fortunes] is when  i open a page
  in a [InPrivate Window]  (a feature of MS Edge)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:29:21 -0000 (UTC)
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HenHanna  <HenHanna@dev.null> wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 18:50:01 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
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>> Newsgroups: news.software.readers news.groups alt.test
>>
>>
>> i noticed that...
>>
>>            Usually  i don't see the Fortunes....
>>
>>  The only time  i see them is when
>>
>>  i open a page  in  [InPrivate Window]  (a feature of MS Edge browser)
>>
>>    so that i'm logged on
>>     to the   NovaBBS  page  anonymously -- (Not as HenHanna)
>
>
>_______________
>
>   it's official...  NovaBBS is so good that...
>
>         i've not used TB (ThunderBird) in maybe 2 months.
>
>_______________
>
>  One of the great features of  NovaBBS is that...
>
>   Every post is  Chronologically  tagged  meticulously.
>
>       34 seconds ago,  and then
>       3 minutes 41 seconds ago,  and then
>       22 hours 42 minutes  ago,  and then  Eventually
>            .......
>       2 years  4 months ago
>
>
>  I used to use Usenet a lot in the 1990s,  and back then
>such focus on (awareness of)  timing of Posts  would have been
>unthinkable
>
>_______________

What an excellent point you make. After all, arithmetic hadn't yet been
invented in the 1990s. There was no way to perform such calculations.