From: utzoo!utcsrgv!bobr Newsgroups: net.misc Title: explain funny symbols please Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.514 Posted: Tue Aug 10 18:09:41 1982 Received: Tue Aug 10 20:28:50 1982 some articles are preceded with two lines of what looks like garbage to me, namely something like (after the "from" line:) #R:mi-cec:-13100:harpo:9400002:000:114 harpo!ber Aug 9 18:23:00 1982 IF THESE FUNNY SYMBOLS DON'T SERVE A PURPOSE WHY GENERATE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE ??? Christoph Bobrowski utzoo!utcsrgv!bobr