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From: elias@eosp1.UUCP (Doug Elias)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: 0-length articles appearing in BRITAIN
Message-ID: <662@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 11:33:13 EST
Article-I.D.: eosp1.662
Posted: Sat Mar 10 11:33:13 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 01:26:18 EST
Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ
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#@.!#@
...first let me apologize for having switched the "ai" in "Britain"
in my last message, and my thanks to the netter who pointed it out.
The offending fingers have been severely chastized...

...Eric Bustad on machaids has probably fingered the culprit, that 
being my unfortunate selection of "." as my offering to the line-eater
in netnews; by trying to be unobtrusive, i've probably caused the 
whole problem due to, according to Erics' reasoning, some link twixt
here and there using a mailer to forward the news, and we all know 
what mailers will do when encountering a line with a single "." in
the first position...

...does this sound right to you Net-perts?


doug