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- From: adk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: Hello All!
- Message-ID: <C1HCD1.9Gt@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:15:00 GMT
- References: <98052@ms.com>
- Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin)
- Reply-To: adk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Kennedy)
- Organization: Department of computer Science, Edinburgh University
- Lines: 51
- Approved: Yup, sure is.
-
- In article <98052@ms.com> GB@ms.com (Gill Bates) writes:
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- We obviously have a man of wit in our prescence. Not!
-
- >Hello All!
- >So, how do you like my automatic posting software? Nice huh?
-
- No, not really. How does it work? What does it do? What is so
- "automatic" about it? It appears to change the "Sender:" line.
- Big deal.
-
- > From alt.hackers Tue Jan 26 20:53:44 1993
- > Path: dcs.ed.ac.uk!edcastle!uknet!mcsun!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!
- > zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!yuma!ms.com!GB
- ^^^^
- That's your computer that is.
-
- > From: GB@ms.com (Gill Bates)
- > Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- > Subject: Hello All!
- > Message-ID: <98052@ms.com>
- > Date: 25 Jan 93 19:21:00 GMT
- > Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- See that? You used that computer to post this, you did.
-
- > Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
-
- That's your University that is.
-
- > Lines: 6
- > Approved: Yes
- > Nntp-Posting-Host: ms.com
-
- >Sorry, The SPA has recommended that I don't distribute it.
-
- Perhaps because it's rubbish. Please try harder next time, you colorado
- university student, you.
-
- And no, I'm not anonymous. Who cares?
-
- ObHack: Writing a replacement for ping(8) - well, a front-end really,
- that gave much friemdlier messages, and had more options, like a
- sarcastic mode, and a "sultans of ping" mode....
-
- Look out on alt.sources :-)
- --
- Andrew D Kennedy - First Year Student - BSc AI & CS Edinburgh University
- adk@dcs.ed.ac.uk adk@festival.ed.ac.uk akennedy@nyx.cs.du.edu lupus on mono
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