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A series of broadsides printed in 1540 consisting of religious arguments were found to be similar to Usenet flamewars

From pschleck@pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) to alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups on Mon May 25 21:40:38 2026

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"..., so someone posted them to Usenet to simulate a back-and-forth Internet squabble."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/comments/1tmin1u/a_series_of_broadsides_printed_in_1540_consisting/

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From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups on Tue May 26 01:38:43 2026

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pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) wrote:

"..., so someone posted them to Usenet to simulate a back-and-forth
Internet squabble."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/comments/1tmin1u/a_series_of_broadsides_printed_in_1540_consisting/

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Twitter-link

Twitter seems to (geo?-)block me even for readonly access. Or it
feels offended by my browser filter plugins not allowing to exploit me
good enough?

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<https://nitter.net/i/status/2057404625171481080>

The sterilised tweet, I see no replies so far.

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<https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FHI1d-CVWgAAeCdj.png>

The attached image only seems to show two two (fake?) posts of a
(fake?) newsgroup <tudor.general> which I wasn't able to find so far.

Which servers do carry <tudor.*>?

IMO two posts is not "a big back and forth" or "flame war", so I
expected to find far more than that. :.(

Was it exaggerated or is it incompletely shown in the sterilised
tweet?

SMART ME UP!
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I still use "Twitter" and "Tweet" to avoid talking about "X" and
"Xcretions".
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From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups on Wed Jul 1 07:29:56 2026

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In article <87cxyjasz8.fsf@dear-messner.dont-email.me>,
yeti@tilde.institute says...

pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) wrote:

"..., so someone posted them to Usenet to simulate a back-and-forth Internet squabble."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/comments/1tmin1u/a_series_of_broadsides_printed_in_1540_consisting/

I found a longer version of the flamewar.

https://www.shipbrook.net/jeff/net1540.html

Some people are saying that "trolling," at the time, was
a variation of "strolling." That works for some of these
uses, but not all.

-Melissa
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