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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Nicholas Boel
from: Carol Shenkenberger
date: 2012-12-15 21:35:48
subject: Re: Hrm.

> On 11-28-12, mark lewis said the following...
 > 
 > ml>
 > ml>  >  SD> Someone's system just took a giant crap in Fidonet, eh?
 > ml>  >
 > ml>  > no, not really... not like a regurge or dump... more like a system
 > ml>  > that was
 > ml>  > open so when someone added all message areas
("+*") for another
 > ml>  > network (zon
 > ml>  > 57), they ended getting *all* message areas in *all* networks
 > ml>  > carried by the
 > ml>  > feed they were connecting to... while their system was chewing on
 > ml>  > them, it w
 > ml>  > also packaging the fidonet ones for their fidonet
feed... guess who t
 > ml>  > fidonet feed is... then guess how many messages that system caught
 > ml>  > as compar
 > ml>  > to those "few" that got away and into the rest
of the network ;)
 > ml>  >
 > ml>  > i can only guess what happened on other networks they
may have also b
 > ml>  > member of... i'm sure there was plenty to go around :lol:
 > ml>
 > ml>  RM> It does lead to a bit of discussion anyway, heh.
 > ml>
 > ml> it does that -=B-)
 > ml>
 > ml> it also lends itself for some good laughs at some of the theories and
 > ml> other posts made about it and which direction some go with it based on
 > ml> assumptions made ;)
 > ml>
 > ml> )\/(ark
 > ml>
 > ml> ---
 > 
 > Mark, this is one of the few times I will quote an entire message, but it's
 > only to show you that whatever reader/editor you're using is what messed
 > the quote up. But it might very well not be the reader/editor you're using,
 > either.
 > 
 > Mainly, this is so you have a little more knowledge in the argument
 > involving you, Carol, and the others in another echo.
 > 
 > The original reply from Richard seemed to have cut the text off at the end o
 > the lines. Maybe what was cut off was actually saved in RAW format, but cut
 > off to fit in the 80 or less characters per line? If this is the case, it's
 > probably one of Synchronet's external editors (can't really blame
 > Synchronet, as there is no "default editor" for it).
 > 
 > Anyways, I know I'm more or less continuing the beating of a dead horse
 > here, but figured I'd mention what I noticed.
 > 

There are plenty of editors that function in a manner not all like.

  xxcarol
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