Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!brianc From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.flame Subject: [FU]net Message-ID: <1873@cognos.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 12:20:19 EST Article-I.D.: cognos.1873 Posted: Fri Nov 27 12:20:19 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 01:20:50 EST References: <8.219B8685@milehi> Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 30 In article <8.219B8685@milehi> John_Parlin@milehi (John Parlin) writes: ! Are you capturing these echo messages to a floppy disk then? If ! so, yes... that could be a problem. A hard drive takes care of it. ! --- ! * Origin: City Terminal, Twin Cities Metronet (Opus 1:282/12) ! SEEN-BY: 14/321 104/56 132/555 282/1 12 606 625 ! ! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ! via FidoNet 104/56 Mile Hi Tech (303-973-9338) ! uucp: ...!{hao|isis}!scicom!milehi!oscar This really pisses me off... It isn't enough that I have to read childish nonsense on the local Fido's, but now some super-genius/megalomaniac decides that it would be a good idea to turn a formerly interesting and useful Usenet newsgroup into a Fido Echomail area! So now we're all doomed to read the rarely-germain postings of each and every kid who has a modem (or is borrowing his mother's) and has found the number of a local BBS! Looks like some good world-wide free advertising for Fido 104/56, but what the hell good is the SEEN-BY line to me, other than to elicit: "At least it's confined to only 7 nodes for now ..." -- Brian Campbell uucp: decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!brianc Cognos Incorporated mail: POB 9707, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, K1G 3Z4 (613) 738-1440 fido: (613) 731-2945 300/1200, sysop@1:163/8