BL> where someone has written "AREA: " at the beginning of their
 BL> message. I don't know what the odds against this are. It is not
 BL> the sort of thing you do accidentally

 PE> If I can quote a message from someone who has done it
 PE> accidentally, will you give me your house?

  No, but I'll give you a framed photograph of Daffy Duck.

 PE> Remember, I only have access to messages from a very limited
 PE> subset of the members of Fidonet, so there is not a hope in
 PE> hell of me getting such a message.

  I'll remember that. I'll write it in blood on my picture of Daffy
Duck.

 BL> dickhead wanted to use this method to post mail without an
 BL> origin, he could do it better by editing a hex-dump of the
 BL> packet itself, and remove his address from the header at the
 BL> same time.

 PE> Normal users can do no such thing. They CAN write ASCII text
 PE> though.

  ROFL! Haven't you ever heard of Norton Diskedit?

 PE> Try to get your one remaining neuron to recognize the
 PE> difference.

  I need my neuron to use such a compicated thing as a hex editor.
It's really hard!

Regards,
Bob
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