-=> Quoting Jean Parrot to Nancy Backus on 09-16-09  08:31 <=-

 NB>>> I think it's a new manifestation of the bug... since the bug
 NB>>> munged the date, and that's what produces the extra digit

 JP>> What I gathered is that as a true adder, the software goes from 99 to
 JP>> 100 in years and thus adds a character that has nowhere to go but in
 JP>> the next "block" which is the To: name.

True, and usually the last digit is from the time of day, not the year,
so the digit isn't consistently the same one for the same year.  I saw
that Dale had a fuller explanation on why the double digit.

 NB>> I know, the mechanics of it you leave to others.  :)  The extra digits
 NB>> show up usually when someone is getting back into messaging on Fidonet,
 NB>> and is brushing off their BW reader... but it's the non-fixed version,
 NB>> and either they don't know about the need for the fix, or they just
 NB>> haven't heard what the fixes were...  :)

 JP> I have, in my ignorance, to leave it to others. I got into this realm
 JP> at an advanced age where personal RAM starts to decay. Coding, even in
 JP> C= BASIC, was arduous to me, I gave up as it was too time taking.
 JP> Thanks Heavens there are people around like Dale and Richard.

Coding is something I've never (except for one basic FORTRAN course in
college many moon ago) done.  I've had a flitting relationship with
computers and their software for many years, but only manage to learn
the programs I have need for and end up using on a regular basis.  I may
learn enough about them to sound really smart about computers, but *I*
know better...  I know that it's only a magic box and I'm just using
magic spells... and that I need the Wizard to keep this "sorcerer's
apprentice" out of trouble...  :)  That being said, Bluewave IS one of
the few programs I know a little about, at least in the using of it. 
George did such a nice job of making it user-friendly and working well
to perform its tasks.  :)

ttyl      neb

... Nickel: Once good for getting the wrong number with.

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