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echo: synchronet
to: NETSURGE
from: POINDEXTER FORTRAN
date: 2020-03-10 06:40:00
subject: Re: `ping` FTN node, qwk

-=> Netsurge wrote to James Coyle <=-

 Ne>     WARNING: the sender's name (in either direction) must *NEVER* be
 Ne>     "PING".

Yeah, Fidonet was a great technology, until someone named ping sent a PING 
request from a node flying the PING flag to another PING node...


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