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I was going to recommend the same thing. Not only do you seem to be missing posts; *your* posts (at least from here) sometimes pop-in at the oddest time; inserted into the thread before the previously-last post in
a thread.
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"Previously-last. It looks funny; but the best I could think of."
The above is a quote from a Usenet post made by a friend of mine. I knew what he meant by previously-last, but is there a word for it?
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I thought of penultimate, too, but the writer was trying to convey the fact that the post in question was the last post, even though it is now the penultimate.
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Help me here, people: If the post was inserted before the previously last post, isn't the previously last post *still last? What am I missing? 
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If the post was inserted before the previously last post,
What the author was referring to was a conflict between the chronolgical order of posts and their appearance in the thread. The post to which he referred was last in the thread, by virtue of having been the last post received. Now, due to a problem with propagation from a certain server, it's still the last in the thread, but not the last received. It was "previously-last" but is not any more.
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Not a situation that arises very often in life! 'Previously last', when in context, seems to express it well enough.
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how about going forward.. today is Friday..if i said
Let's get together next Sunday
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Let's get together this comming Sunday
am i talking about the same day to you? or would you see the first as a week from sunday, and the second in 2 days?
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To me it's the same, but I'm aware that others have diverse views on it so I take pains to ensure we are referring to the same day. Unless I don't really want to meet with them of course. 
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I would say that there's a fuzzy line dividng next Sunday from the coming Sunday. On Friday they're a week apart, on Monday they're the same. I'm not sure when the change over happens, so, like dxb, I'd take pains to make sure we're all talking about the same day
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