On 2019 Jul 06 00:19:32, you wrote to me:

 ml>> just so you know and can verify... here's a screen shot of your
 ml>> message i'm replying to

 MK> Got it.  From what I see it is intact.  It would be nicer and more
 MK> practical to have a text based hexdump instead.  For example if I dump
 MK> the msg_body to a file called temp.data and farm that out to xxd I get
 MK> this output, suitable for insertion into a reply, which I am now
 MK> doing;

yeah, if i had the original PKT, i might have done the same... the
screenshot is how it is in my message base, though... i don't want to try
to dump it like that and pick it out of the houndreds of other messages ;)
;) ;)

 MK> The above all aside, everything looks fine.  I seem to have better
 MK> luck posting from the EuroPoint but once it reaches here all bets are
 MK> off.  I think it is someone close to here.

yes, at least one is... there are other throughout the network, though...

)\/(ark

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
it off.
... Aliens Invaded Los Angeles (And No One Noticed)
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