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to: mark lewis
from: imb{at}asstdc.scgt.oz.au
date: 1996-02-19 18:05:26
subject: Re: buggy fmail tosser...

From: imb{at}asstdc.scgt.oz.au

:  ml> the garbage after the origin lines is getting worse...

:  ml>  + Origin:  (1:3634/12)

: PP> You sure don't have any garbage in your origin line! (no tearline
: PP> and no origin text!) :-)

: -=B-)  but there is a perfectly good space up there >

If I remember correctly, this was a "send up" of the then popular echomail
processor called QECHO which could not cope with something that was accepted
by everything else .. the first versions of ZMAIL suffered a similar bug
(being from the same code-base) .. this .. maybe .. 1988 ? :-)

	michael

--- ifmail v.2.8a/p4
* Origin: Assorted C Software, Sydney (3:712/400{at}fidonet)
SEEN-BY: 50/99 78/0 620/243 711/409 410 413 430 808 809 934 712/400 407 515
SEEN-BY: 712/517 614 624 713/888 800/1 7877/2809
@PATH: 712/400 515 711/808 809 934

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

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