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From: Nanook@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG (Keith Dickinson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Two apparent forgeries
Message-ID: <1273.252662F1@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 1 Oct 89 04:45:02 GMT
Organization: TLSI.Fidonet.Org: The DFW/Usenet Gateway
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In an article of <29 Sep 89 21:10:19 GMT>, spok@gs6.sp.cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom) writes:
 >A few days ago, a blank article with this signature appeared on 
 >rec.arts.misc:
 >
 >>--+--+    +------+ Internet: Steve.Saroff.lac00001@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG
 >>  |  |    |      | UUCP    : ...!attctc!tlsi!Steve.Saroff.lac00001
 >>  |  |    +---+  | Note    : TLSI is a FREE gateway for mail between
 >>  |  |        |  |         : Usenet and Fidonet. For more informations
 >>  +  +----+---+  +         : write to root@tlsi or attctc!tlsi!root
 >>TLSI: The Hard Drive Specialists - (214) 263-0707. We repair most 
 >brands.
 >
 >Steve Saroff later wrote back that he had not posted it and had no
 >knowledge of who had.
 >
 >Just now, a similar article attributed to Charley Wingate  
 >(normally mangoe@mimsy.umd.edu) appeared on talk.religion.misc:
 >
 >[blank body]
 >>--+--+    +------+ Internet: Charley.Wingate@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG
 >>  |  |    |      | UUCP    : ...!attctc!tlsi!Charley.Wingate
 >>  |  |    +---+  | Note    : TLSI is a FREE gateway for mail between
 >>  |  |        |  |         : Usenet and Fidonet. For more informations
 >>  +  +----+---+  +         : write to root@tlsi or attctc!tlsi!root
 >>TLSI: The Hard Drive Specialists - (214) 263-0707. We repair most 
 >brands.
 >
 >Anybody from TLSI (or who knows the origins of these posts)
 >want to explain what's going on?
 >
 >John Ockerbloom

Yes.. My machine was having a nervous breakdown. It would take a name from some other message and tack it on to an empty message going outbound.

Since I believe the problem is power related, I've ordered a UPS that should be here in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, please ignore any "empty" messages that you see coming from my system (assuming Texas P&L continues using my system for a surge endurance test bed! :)

Keith Dickinson
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