>> This is the THIRD echo I have seen this message in.

 >> DROP WHAT?????

 JN>  He's a dimwit who believes that posting in an echo will
 JN>  remove it from his scan.  Looks like he's leaving Fido.
 JN>  He posted in at least 4 other echoes that you don't read.

he's no more a dimwit than anyone else using software that's got bugs in
it... in his case, its a y2k bug, specifically, that's causing the TO:
field in the headers to pick up an extra leading character and thus
misaddress the message...

maybe some education is in need for other "dimwits" ?? 
>

)\/(ark