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to: Bill Grimsley
from: rowan crowe
date: 1995-06-11 09:04:58
subject: WTF is this?

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Answering msg from Bill Grimsley to Paul Edwards,
on Thursday June 01 1995 at 08:32

 BG> Here is a message I noticed in the POINTS echo, and it's interesting
 BG> to see that Msged 3.05 has reached Zone 1, but how the fuck did he
 BG> manage to get his origin line before the EOT kludge?  And why did
 BG> Squish add another control line?  Something very weird is going on...

 BG> ===============================================================
 BG> Date:   Fri May 26 1995 15:23:42
 BG> From:   Joey Mukherjee
 BG> To:     John Aceto
 BG> Subj:   Should I Point?
 BG> Attr:
 BG> POINTS                         -+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--

 BG> *GMD: 1:387/800
      ^^^

    Grunged Message Detector. Something was wrong with the message, and
this was picked up at 1:387/800.

 BG> -+- Msgedsq/2 3.05
 BG>  + Origin: Back when my credit cards used to work... (1:387/800.625)

 BG> *EOT:

 BG> -+- Msgedsq/2 3.05
 BG>  + Origin: Back when my credit cards used to work... (1:387/800.625)

 BG> -+- Squish/386 v1.11
 BG>  + Origin: The Point of Know Return (1:30270/625)

    I've seen Squish append its own origin line, particularly on forwarded
messages. I have no idea how he managed to get his origin *before* the EOT.
:-)

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