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echo: bluewave
to: NANCY BACKUS
from: Jean Parrot
date: 2009-09-16 08:27:30
subject: -- Blue Wave

Nancy wrote:

 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

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

 JP>> Nobody else gets any digit, not even a single one. Why he gets two is
 JP>> totally out of my realm, you knew this.

 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...  :)

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

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