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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
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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