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echo: bbs_internet
to: Winston Smith
from: Steven Horn
date: 2003-03-21 22:39:26
subject: [--- Talk ---]

Winston Smith (1:323/120) wrote to Steven Horn at 03:16 on 21 Mar 2003:

 WS> I'm not talking about the node list listing....
 WS> I am talking about the Mailer Footer!

I just figured that out.:-)

 WS> Sorry!  I forgot that those are added by the outgoing mailer and
 WS> not actually seen by the poster....  My mistake.  I should have

Since my messages are the only ones that are generated on my system, I am
well aware of what they say.:-)

 WS> been more explicit.  I do not expect the FidoNET nodelisting to be
 WS> *ACCURATE* ... especially in Zone 1 !  It hasn't been accurate
 WS> since the late '80s! I think you use timEd ...  hold on a minute

I would not over-generalize as dead systems do get pitched.

 WS> while I paste in the footer: 

-> -!- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+

timEd is my reader/editor.  I've been using it now for a decade and still like it.


Which gives you the details of the system from which the message originates.

Yours looks like this:

--- ViaMAIL!/WC v1.60d
-> * Origin: northof60.tzo.com, Whitehorse, YT, Canada (1:17/67)
* Origin: Chowdanet (401-331-0615) telnet://chowdanet.com (1:323/120)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270
@PATH: 17/67 140/1 106/2000 633/267

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