Aduke.1460 net.news utzoo!decvax!duke!bcw Wed Dec 9 01:43:14 1981 net.jokes and short messages Subject: single character news items I don't know if this was the cause of the short message mentioned by watmath!bstempleton, but my terminal is on a very noisy line to the Unix system at the Computer Science Dept. at Duke and often inserts or transforms characters. More than once I have had it generate 'r' to one of the news items - it is possible that if something went back to some semiautomatic mailer that it might get on the net (usually I have been able to kill the mail, but it's always possible someone doesn't ...). I'm not sure how this could be solved short of doing checked protocols EVERYWHERE... Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.