BG> You mean I'll finally be getting my netmail now?  Hallelujah!

PE> You were always getting netmail to your address.  If you wish to
PE> associate with people who post to a hypothetical system which
PE> you never log on to, you'll never get the mail. 

BG> In that case, why is it that until two days ago, I had NEVER received a 
BG> netmail message from anybody via your board?  Not even once, Paul.  Funny 
BG> that.

You should be very careful about lying through your back teeth
when I am sitting on a netmail messagebase of 4351 messages (on
3:711/934, not 3:711/934.9, that's even bigger).  Or was it a
ghost that wrote this reply to Dieter?  This is the first one I
found in my messagebase.  Actually there was another, but no
proof that you received it by way of reply.  I fail to see what's
so secret about the message, but I'll assume it is the company
names and so I'll censor them.  A muttered apology will suffice.


Date:   1994-07-28 22:17:06
From:   Dieter Mirbach of 3:711/934.8
To:     Bill Grimsley of 3:711/934.18
Subj:   Os/2 zealots
Attr:   sent scanned 
Area:   NETMAIL                       

 * Reply to msg originally in AUST_AVTEC

 Hope this comes thpough as Private.....

 BG> the Datagraphics 4560 beastie (bet you don't know what that 
 BG> machine's primary function was, either).  ;-)
 
 DM> COM.

 BG> Smart-arse!  Now you can really dazzle us with your knowledge by
 BG> deciphering the above acronym.  BTW, you got the COM right, but I bet
 BG> you can't tell me which IRQ.  ;-)
 
 DM> I think....

 BG> Seriously, well done.  How did you know?

 
 
 Ever heard of or worked for any of these Australian companies :
 
 XXXXXXXX
 
 YYYYYYYYYYYYY
 
 ZZZZZZ
 
 AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 
 I can't really say much more until I'm assured this is 
 reasonably private.... truely :-))
 
 Dieter




... deny thy father and forget thy tagline.


Date:   1994-07-30 09:35:38
From:   Bill Grimsley of 3:711/934.18
To:     Dieter Mirbach of 3:711/934.8
Subj:   Os/2 zealots
Attr:   priv sent scanned 
Area:   NETMAIL                       

Dieter, at 22:17 on Thu, Jul 28 1994, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

 DM> Hope this comes through as Private.....

Well, the PVT flag is set, whatever that means.  ;-)

 BG> the Datagraphics 4560 beastie (bet you don't know what that 
 BG> machine's primary function was, either).  ;-)

 DM> COM.

 BG> Seriously, well done.  How did you know?

 DM> 

You've been taking lessons from Amfony, I see.

 DM> Ever heard of or worked for any of these Australian companies :

 DM> XXXXXXXX
 DM> YYYYYYYYYYYYY
 DM> ZZZZZZ
 DM> AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I've heard of all of them to varying degrees, but I've not worked for any of 
them, or their subsidiaries (to the best of my knowledge).

 DM> I can't really say much more until I'm assured this is 
 DM> reasonably private.... truely :-))

Only our sysops can read netmail, and I'm sure they don't bother, so it's about 
as private as Fidonet ever gets.

FWIW, in the mid-70s I used to work for BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB (way back 
when they were called CCCCCCCC) in their COM bureau, and moved to DDDDDDDD 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD when EEE sold out to that company a couple of years later.

So anyway, Dieter, tell me more ...  ;-)

Regards, Bill
@EOT:

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