Sunday November 13 1994 12:11, rowan crowe wrote to All:

 > By: FlexToss, -Unlisted- (2:301/1)
 > To: Joel Davenport, Eternal Flame (1:362/940.5)
 > Re: Invalid Origin line detected.

 > I detected that your mail posted in area DESQVIEW contains an
"Origin" line
 > which exceeds 79 characters.

 > This message was generated on 21-Oct-1994 at 17:32:12 GMT
 >                            by FlexToss 1.00B20 compiled on 20.10.94.

FlexToss?  What's so flexible about killing valid echomail messages?  Sigh.

 >     This is obviously some automatic vigilante software. Correct me if I'm
 > wrong, but can anyone suggest why software would barf on an origin line >79
 > chars? If it's a static string then it can be truncated, no?

Older software might have problems, but they'd be in the minority.

 >> Your original message has been deleted from echo distribution
 >> to prevent other systems having trouble with it.

 >     More software playing God. I wonder if Paul Edwards is running this
 > yet? :-)

Maybe he wrote it?  BFN.


ZeeYa...
Andrew.

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