-={ Saturday, 11 June 2016, 18:49:09 -0400 }=-

Hey mark!

 ml> it is possible to have an echo with private messages in it as long
 ml> as the users are aware that every sysop can still read those
 ml> messages ;)

As well as everyone else in a distribution system.  Same with email way
back when the earth's crust was still cooling although that was tough to
prove.  Regardless, anytime I was told it was private I never, ever
believed it.  I can think of too many examples where people knew things
they couldn't have known unless they read it or the intended audience told
them.

No big deal as far as I am personally concerned as I always prefer
everything posted is out in the open and have always assumed it potentially
would be, even email.

As for the message I quoted I doubt the user even knew the so-called
'private' bit was turned on and if he did he was being extremely naive. 
Heck even over two decades later there it is again.

BTW I counted 2137 linefeeds in E6614010.PKT.  Tsk, tsk.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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