From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!ariel!orion!lime!we13!rjk Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Cryptic messages Article-I.D.: we13.400 Posted: Mon Feb 14 18:51:37 1983 Received: Thu Feb 17 03:05:02 1983 References: ihuxb.222 The "parse date string" comes from readnews when following up. Apparently, there is some overwriting of data space in there that tacks the error mess- age about "Cannot parse date string" on the end. The count of bytes in so many seconds comes right from the UUCP SYSLOG file that tracks data transmissions. How it got in the article is probably a UNIX (as opposed to NETNEWS) problem. Randy King