-=> Quoting Charles Angelich to Roy J. Tellason <=-

 > My understanding (from another post by Mark Lewis?) is that the
 > reason you are seeing these (you shouldn't be) is the Y2K bug
 > in BlueWave BBS 'doors' that manage uploading and downloading
 > of BlueWave packets. Had this user been using normal QWK
 > packets you would normally not have seen the 'drop' messages.


 It has nothing to do with the Y2K bug.  (If the Y2K patch
 has not been installed in someone's system, you would see
 screwed-up addresses in the TO: and FROM: lines.)  See the
 excerpt below, from the patch's .doc file.

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     R. Dale Shipp
     1:261/1466
     05-31-99

  There are three types of errors in messages that have been observed so
  far with the BlueWave Y2K QWK Reply problem.   On the initial creation
  of a message, BlueWave will output the value of YEAR-1900 into a two
  digit field.  Since this will be a three digit number after 1 January
  2000, it causes most of the rest of the header record to be skewed to
  the right by one character.  This effects the date, the time, the TO:
  field and other subsequent fields.  A second type of error is that
  whenever BlueWave version 2.30 reads a reply message with a date that
  it thinks is out of bounds (which would be any date with a two digit
  year less than 70), it replaces the date and time fields with 01-01-70
  and 00:00 respectively.  It then seems to manage to insert the correct
  thing into all other fields except for the TO: field.  That field may
  have a leading digit which is a left over effect from when the time
  field was slid on the previous mangling of the message header by
  BlueWave.   The third type of error is observed with BlueWave version
  2.12.  When BW 2.12 opens a .REP packet which has dates with years of
  00 and beyond, it gets very confused and converts those dates to
  erroneous month/day/year figures, possibly negative.
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 BlueWave can add/drop only on a few BBS's such as Telegard and
 Renegade which have a BlueWave "door".

 BlueWave CANNOT add/drop in QKW-format packets on Wildcat, TBBS,
 QBBS, KBBS, and other (pure) QWK systems.

 Attempting to do so in a QWK packet results in this message:

 Menu-driven offline configuration is not available in QWacK mode.


 Finally, "doors" exist ONLY on BBS systems; not on callers'
 computers.  The BlueWave "door" does NOT have the Y2K problem.
 It exists only in the BlueWave "reader" when it composes a reply.
 

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