-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Sean Dennis on 11-27-12  22:35 <=-

 SD> Someone's system just took a giant crap in Fidonet, eh?

 ML> no, not really... not like a regurge or dump... more like a system
 ML> that was too open so when someone added all message areas
("+*") for
 ML> another network (zone 57), they ended getting *all* message areas in
 ML> *all* networks carried by the feed they were connecting to... while
 ML> their system was chewing on them, it was also packaging the fidonet
 ML> ones for their fidonet feed... guess who that fidonet feed is... then
 ML> guess how many messages that system caught as compared to those
"few"
 ML> that got away and into the rest of the network ;) 

I have a pretty good idea just how huge that catch was... just judging
by how many personal to me messages showed up in the Bad Messages Areas,
just for COOKING and MEMORIES...!   'Twas indeed a shock!   :) 

 ML> i can only guess what happened on other networks they may have also
 ML> been a member of... i'm sure there was plenty to go around :lol:

I didn't notice any anywhere but Fido, and I have a few areas tagged on
other bbses for a number of alternate networks...  guess we were just
lucky...  ;)

ttyl         neb

... My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in May.

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