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Wow...I was simply asking "why" is this here? Is it the change in the English language over time? The types of things that were on the list, compared to what'

Wow...I was simply asking "why" is this here? Is it the change in the English language over time? The types of things that were on the list, compared to what's considered normal today? Is it the fact that it just shows the month + year, vs YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-SS.XXTZ like we must have now? Is it the idea of what appeared to be a letter that might have been posted via mail to some other place in advance of the courier which would retrieve the goods requested? --- My point is that there are a number of reasons why this could have been posted here on HN, but no indication of any of those was given. So I was wondering. Sheesh.

kwhitefoot 9y ago
No idea why you were downvoted. I think the reason you haven't got a good answer is because samclemens isn't answering and the rest of us don't know his (or her, or its) reasons.
Semiapies 9y ago
Because when the question asked is, "Why is this story on HN?", there's no way to tell whether you're asking "Why is this non-technical, non-belonging story here?", which is highly disfavored, and "What precisely interested the submitter about this story?", which is, well, not terribly important.