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echo: trek_creative
to: Jay P Hailey
from: Paul Williams
date: 2003-01-15 00:09:50
subject: DROP

Hi Jay P Hailey, hope you are having a nice day


>>>From: Ron Michael
>>>To: 7wcmail
>>>DROP
>>Huh?
JPH>The fellow is trying to unsubscribe without RTFM first.

 Ain't really that guys fault. Notice the number 7 in the To:
line? That's due to the one y2k bug in the bluewave mail reader.
It only screws up when it creates the reply file to upload. The
bit that stores the year is a 2 digit spot (ie `99') but when '00
came it tries to use 3 digits (ie `100') and that bumps everything
down a space. Thus when the maildoor on the bbs looks for `wcmail'
and gets `7wcmail' (or `anynumber'wcmail) it doesn't know to trap
the msg and use it as a command instead.

 There is a patch but not everyone remembers to use it. 

 -=> Yours sincerely, Paul Williams <=-

... my squirrels are kinda nutty these days..."--Jas. Dixon
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