To: Paul Edwards

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

 PE> Are you an engineer by any chance?

  (grin). Sometimes it works...

 PE> I think you need a closing ">" if you don't have one already.

  That's what I thought, too...

 BL> 20:16:52 sending "scorpio/0006.XQT" to "D.Ubobl0006" (645
 BL> 20:16:52 bytes) sent 0006.XQT (645 bytes, 1935 cps)

 PE> Hmmmm. I would have called you a filthy liar had you not posted
 PE> this.

  If I wanted to lie, I could fake it easily enough, but I don't lie
about technical matters. I'm an engineer... we lie about everything
else.

 BL> SO... to strip all but the first line of the message, your
 BL> program must first have unpacked it, removed the cunbatch,
 BL> stripped it, and then compressed it again. I wopnder why it did
 BL> that.

 PE> :-) Actually, that is a possibility. Actually, it even puts it
 PE> in another location with a different filename, so anything is
 PE> possible.

  Weird. Either your program is an invention of the devil, or I am
giving it some mighty-strange instructions in the D.file! I went back
and checked where I got that data from... from you, in fact, via a
fukwit named Leonard Ericson (aka shadow/krypton) who sent you his
UUCP output files and got them totally fucked up (which I copied). I
wonder if he did it on purpose...

 PE> I bet what you've done is put a null ('\0') after that rnews
 PE> line.

  How the hell could I do that? And besides, the file you end up with
is only 29-bytes long. Whatever happens to it... *YOU* do!

Regards,
Bob
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