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PROTOCOL: ALT
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COMPRESSION: NONE
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CONNECT 2400/ARQ
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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
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03/08/93 01:53:14
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Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U
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?^U
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?^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
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Logging name to disk...
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You are caller 229102; next msg =46129; 381 active msgs.
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Prev. call 03/03/93 @ 23:17, next msg was 46120
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Recording logon for next time.
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Use FULL? to check assignments
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?^U
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?xxxxx
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"Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to a
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short
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LOG. 14
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KILLED. 33
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SUMMARY. 25
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33:49,229067,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,2
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03/04/93,19:30:45,229068,2,GARY HEILEMANN,Glenview/ IL,8
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03/04/93,21:36:25,229069,2,BENJAMIN COHEN,,1
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03/04/93,23:31:14,229070,2,BILL MATTSON,,3
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03/04/93,23:40:03,229071,1,ROY LIPSCOMB,,
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E#46120,
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E#46121,
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E#46122,13
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03/05/93,07:22:44,229072,2,CHAVALIN ARORA,Melrose Park/ IL,2
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03/05/93,07:52:30,229073,1,AL HIGGINS,,5
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03/05/93,08:36:25,229074,2,DONNIE STUHLMAN,,
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E#46123,5
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03/05/93,11:49:53,229075,1,TINA BOWES,/Springfield/VA,
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03/05/93,12:09:35,229076,2,DONALD DOCKMAN,,0
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03/05/93,14:30:49,229077,2,JOE COZZI,Naperville/ IL,5
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03/05/93,15:47:07,229078,2,DENNIS STAHL,,3
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03/05/93,21:20:54,229079,2,SHARON GIBSON,cicero/il,1
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03/05/93,21:33:34,229080,3,JOEL ALLEN,Ashille,4
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03/05/93,23:45:21,229081,2,SAM KANDEL,,3
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03/06/93,13:19:44,229082,2,ALEX ZELL,,
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E#46124,
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E#46125,3
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03/06/93,16:29:41,229083,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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E#46126,
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E#46127,4
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03/06/93,16:42:12,229084,2,ANDY SHAPIRO,,
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E#46128,8
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03/06/93,18:18:52,229085,2,DAVID JOHNSON,,12
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03/06/93,18:38:03,229086,2,BRETT INGLIS,elgin,4
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03/06/93,23:10:38,229087,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,8
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03/06/93,23:32:15,229088,2,BILL MATTSON,,1
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03/06/93,23:49:16,229089,2,JOE GEORGE,Atlanta/ GA,6
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]Hello, friends! I've not called here in many years, for some odd
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reason your phone number popped into my head earlier this week and
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I thought I would drop off a note to congratulate the both of you on
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the 15th anniversary! Good work!
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Joe George
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jgeorge@whiffer.atl.ga.us
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JOE GEORGE,
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03/07/93,00:35:08,229090,2,ANGIE REED,Keota Iowa,5
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03/07/93,07:21:50,229091,2,DAVID GIBBS,,8
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03/07/93,10:55:19,229092,2,ALEX ZELL,,2
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]ALEX ZELL,3
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]Msg 46123, "misdirected" message; "didn't realize the reply would go
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to you" suggests belief messages may have some of the characteristics
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of e-mail, perhaps even limited privacy.
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Chinet has not been responding.
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ALEX ZELL,
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03/07/93,12:59:11,229093,2,BOB GEE,chicago/il,8
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03/07/93,14:55:09,229094,2,WILLIAM KROHN,Hoffman Estates Il,4
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03/07/93,17:00:54,229095,2,BERNARD GOLDLUST,,6
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03/07/93,18:35:03,229096,2,MARTY MILLER,,4
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03/07/93,20:40:29,229097,2,JOE JESSON,,10
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03/07/93,22:44:17,229098,2,ROB KLEEMAN,,8
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03/07/93,23:04:38,229099,2,DAVID MARTIN,,
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>Help: HAM,9
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03/07/93,23:38:21,229100,2,JACOB EPPSTEIN,Highland Park,5
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03/08/93,00:10:00,229101,2,BILL MATTSON,,1
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03/08/93,01:53:18,229102,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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46120 03/04/93 ROY LIPSCOMB => ALL: "FLASH: DAMAGE NOT FROM VIRUS!"
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46121 03/04/93 ROY LIPSCOMB => ALL: "FLASH: DAMAGE (2)"
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46122 03/04/93 ROY LIPSCOMB => WARD: "CBBS RETIRING?"
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46123 03/05/93 DONNIE STUHLMAN => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "MESSAGE MISTAKE"
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46124 03/06/93 ALEX ZELL => ROY: "CBBS"
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46125 03/06/93 ALEX ZELL => ALL: "PRIVACY"
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46126 03/06/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ROY LIPSCOMB: "R/CBBS RETIRING?"
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46127 03/06/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALEX ZELL: "R/PRIVACY"
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46128 03/06/93 ANDY SHAPIRO => ALL DESKJET USERS: "CHEAP INK"
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- End of summary -
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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
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Msg 46120 is 30 line(s) on 03/04/93 from ROY LIPSCOMB
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to ALL re: FLASH: DAMAGE NOT FROM VIRUS!
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Today I encountered a hair-raising problem with my D drive (a hard-
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drive partition). There was a sudden epidemic of invalid clusters on
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my D drive, afflicting about thirty or forty files. When I tried to
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restore the files from backups, other files got damaged and I
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observed further trauma, an outbreak of cross-linking.
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After wrestling to restore the damaged files for several hours, I
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finally despaired enough to think more about the symptoms. I noticed
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a crucial clue, which had been I ignoring in my panic: When I ran
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CHKDSK to check my progress with the repairs, CHKDSK would always
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start out by displaying the message, "possible non-DOS disk:
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Continue anyway (y/n)?"
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I decided to rev up a disk-sector editor, and poked around in
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the control areas of drive D. When I did, I could find only one
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anomaly: The first four bytes of both FATs were peculiar. Those
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bytes are normally F8 FF FF FF; but on my D drive, those bytes were
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2D DD 9F C3. As a test, I restored those bytes to their usual
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values, then ran CHKDSK. CHKDSK no longer reported "possible
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non-DOS disk." I was then able to replace the bad files without
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inflicting new damage, and the drive once again operated normally.
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After solving this problem, I recalled that in the past year I
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had encountered a similar problem. One of the hard-disk partitions
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had suddenly become balky, refusing to operate normally with some
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common utilities that had presented no problems previously. I finally
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tracked that problem down; the first byte of the FAT had been altered
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e strange value. As in the present case, when I restored
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AT signature to its normal value, the problem was cured.
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(Continued next message)
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Msg 46121 is 27 line(s) on 03/04/93 from ROY LIPSCOMB
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to ALL re: FLASH: DAMAGE (2)
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It's popular to suspect viruses as the cause of most (if not all)
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unexplained file disruptions nowadays. In those incidents where
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a virus is not found, well, it be a new type that at present escapes
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detection.
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Was this damage caused by a virus? I really doubt it. Anyone who
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wants to scramble a FAT would hardly stop after changing less than
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five bytes. My guess is that the damage was caused by some bug in
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DOS or in some utility program- a bug perhaps that shows itself only
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under very unusual circumstances.
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However, this kind of diagnosis doesn't make headlines. ("Man finds
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data loss was not due to virus!") The result is that viruses
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have become the scapegoats for all sorts of mischief (kind of like
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like Communists were in the '50s).
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So is there a moral to this story? Yes: If your hard drive or files
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seem to have gotten damaged or scrambled for no obvious reason, try
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checking the first four bytes of the FAT. (In fact, it may be a good
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idea to check them now, while everything is functioning normally,
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so that you'll know exactly how to restore them if they do go bad.)
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You may have to boot off a diskette to do this, if the hard drive is
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no longer bootable; so keep an emergency boot diskette handy that
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contains a disk-sector editor (and other diagnostic and repair tools).
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P.S. As noted above, the value that overlaid the FAT signature was
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2D DD 9F C3. Does this give any clue to what caused the overwriting?
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Msg 46122 is 03 line(s) on 03/04/93 from ROY LIPSCOMB
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to WARD re: CBBS RETIRING?
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It'd would really be sad to see this trailblazing institution
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disappear. Are there alternatives? Could others take over the
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job of sysop, so you'd be free for other more rewarding pursuits?
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Msg 46123 is 02 line(s) on 03/05/93 from DONNIE STUHLMAN
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: MESSAGE MISTAKE
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Sorry about the midirected message. I guess that I saw Ed's name
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and didn't realize the reply would go to you.
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Msg 46124 is 07 line(s) on 03/06/93 from ALEX ZELL
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to ROY re: CBBS
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Not to worry, Roy. You know that on occasion, when the spirit moves him,
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Randy mutters threats about giving up CBBS causing Ward and a couple of
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his loyal assistant operators to beat him back into some semblance of
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sanity and CBBS continues its existence. [Did I glimpse the word
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"sysop" in your posting? As the owner and custodian of the original
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CBBS machine you must recall that you used a word that could be cause
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for immediate removal of the offending message? tsk tsk]
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Msg 46125 is 08 line(s) on 03/06/93 from ALEX ZELL
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to ALL re: PRIVACY
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An earlier message leads me to believe that some visitors here may
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not realize that CBBS is a *public* bulletin board and that there is
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no *mail* function here. All postings are readable by everyone.
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There is no privacy here, and no private messages can be sent or
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read - with two minor exceptions. Ward can *flash* a message that
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can be read only by the caller to whom it is addressed; Ward and
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his assistants can read comments left upon logging off, at the
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<g,y> function.
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Msg 46126 is 09 line(s) on 03/06/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to ROY LIPSCOMB re: R/CBBS RETIRING?
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Why do you say retiring? I posted nothing. I gotta move toward
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converting to "C" - maybe with my 12 extra days vacation IBM gave me,
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I will use that time. CBBS recently added external Bernoulli's for
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backup, and I JUST installed the HST back on it, I don't see any
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particular "its dying" indications.
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Matter of fact, next week I get a free flight to San Francisco, to
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receive the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (Mitch Kapor started it)
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Pioneer award - along with the founders of the Internet, the Trailblazer
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modem, etc.
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Msg 46127 is 02 line(s) on 03/06/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to ALEX ZELL re: R/PRIVACY
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That's a g;y not a g,y. Heh. Do you know what msg implied this
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was private?
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Msg 46128 is 11 line(s) on 03/06/93 from ANDY SHAPIRO
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to ALL DESKJET USERS re: CHEAP INK
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Well, not cheap, REALLY, but close. INMAC (the company everyone seems
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to love to hate, including me) has a deal on high-capacity black
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printheads for the DJ series - their catalog says "buy two for $47.50,
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get one free!" Well, after tax & shipping it was $55, but that's still
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pretty good for 3 high capacity units, and they arrived the next day.
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That works out to about $18.30 per cartridge, tax & shipping included;
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I don't know what they go for in Chicago, but the same cartridge would
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cost $38 EACH at our college bookstore.
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My advice? Order a few and stock up!
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dup. chars.
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>Function:? |