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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1995-02-18 17:33:04
subject: kludges

Hi, Paul.

PE>  FM> I'm not sure if this is a sysop question or a PKT2QWK one, so it's in
PE>  FM> here. Most (but not all) of the messages in this download have got
PE>  FM> SEEN+BY and other kludge lines in them, varying ones. Some have
PE> msg-id,
PE>  FM> some have pid, some have reply, some even have sot/eot! It may have
PE> been
PE>  FM> happening before without me noticing.

PE>  FM> Do you think this is a temporary problem somewhere in the network, or
PE>  FM> something in PKT2QWK? Note, I'm now using 2.35.

PE> Are you talking about the *.PKT files or the QWK files?  The *.PKT

The QWK files had them.

PE> files are meant to have kludge lines in them.  The QWK isn't, they
PE> are meant to be stripped by PKT2QWK.  Use my messages as a yardstick
PE> though, as I can be fairly certain that I haven't stuffed up my own
PE> messages by quoting control lines.  My messages should only have
PE> SOT/EOT, SEENBY, PATH.  BFN.  Paul.

And none of them has made it through to the mail reader, as should be
the case.

Looks like it was some glitch in the network somewhere.

Regards, FIM.

 * * Reality.Sys corrupted -- Reboot Universe (Y/N)?
@EOT:

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* Origin: Pedants Inc. (3:711/934.24)
SEEN-BY: 711/934
@PATH: 711/934

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