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