-=> Quoting Mike Freeman to Vaughan Dodd <=-
 MF> In a message to All dated 18 May 97 03:43, Vaughan Dodd writes:
 
 VD> I've noticed a lengthy delay from the
 VD> time that messages are dated to
 VD> when they circulate around the world. 
 VD> Am seeing messages dated 17 May
 VD> which look as if they were written
 VD> perhaps a month ago. =20
 MF> Some of these may have been mine. I download .qwk packets and 
 MF> upload .rep packets. Sometimes I start replying to the messages in 
 MF> a packet but get side-tracked and don't call NFB-net for a long 
 MF> while but don't bother to delete the messages scheduled to be sent 
 MF> as replies because I figure the material is still relevent -- 
 MF> after all, *I* sent it (big grin).
 
There is only one problem with old messages.  There is filtering software on 
the Fidonet side, upstream from here and it deletes messages dated in the 
past by more then 30 days.  It figures they are a mistake.  So Mike, don't 
sit on those packets for more then a month.
David Andrews
p.s.  They would still go out to the mailing list side.
DA
... <- teenage mutant ninja tribbles
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