To: Paul Edwards

 PE> Yesterday, according to my logs, you sent me an X.file and a
 PE> D.file successfully. Actually, you did that twice, first naming
 PE> it scorpio, then naming it Ubobl. My logs show me that it
 PE> executed the X.files. My logs also show me that it rejected the
 PE> mail because there was no Message-Id. 

  How stange... BOTH worked!

  There was a Meddage-ID, but I don't know the format so I just tried
abcdefghijklmon... etc, and stuck your address on the back.

  So, it doesn't work. I'll try it with my own address, next time.

 PE> I then went and hunted around, and found a directory that
 PE> looked like it had your D. files in it. Both files were 29
 PE> bytes long, and consisted of a cunbatch, and when I
 PE> decompressed it, I found just a single line saying "#!rnews" or
 PE> similar, no message at all.

  Weird... they were 500-byte (or so) messages when they left this
end, consisting of two messages compressed. If you only get the first 
line (#! rnews 0004) it must have something to do with my crlf treatment. 
How come you strip it before you uncompress it? Weird. This is what I 
actually sent... (before compression)

#! rnews 009
Path: scorpio!Ubobl
From: Ubobl{at}scorpio.rosebay.matra.com.au
Newsgroups: dial.test
Subject: Test 005
Message-ID:  * Origin: Precision Nonsense, Sydney (3:711/934.12)

SEEN-BY: 711/934 712/610

@PATH: 711/934