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Skriven 2014-12-16 19:48:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JANIS KRACHT
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-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 12-14-14  23:10 <=-

 > I can totally imagine...!  :)  A form of "brooms" generation, that one
 > didn't even induce oneself...  ;)  Getting the first packet from Docs,
 > with 800 Cooking echo messages was my first clue something was wrong...
 > I actually read through about half of them in that first packet, before
 > I gave it up...  After that, it was scramble time, to figure out (where
 > even possible) how to avoid having to download that whole mess from all
 > the bbses I pull packets from...  ;0

 JK> Yes, unfortunately unlike dupe detection there is no such thing as
 JK> EGPP (erroneous-giganticus-packet protection (G)) :)

Definitely unfortunate...  ;)   If nothing else, it was a reminder why I
really prefer bbses to the internet newsgroups..  ;)
 
 > He seemed to be a good fellow to me... and I figured it was turned off
 > quickly, since that one huge dump seemed to be all there was...  Bad
 > enough, but nice that the spigot (or maybe one should say fire hydrant)
 > was turned off...  :)

 JK> Yes, quite a relief.  I read through a few of them once they arrived
 JK> as well. Well, I'm glad that's over with :)
 
Likewise.  :)  

 >> We've been so busy with getting the house in Windsor ready for it's
 >> closing/new owner.. We should be closing on the sale of the house by
 >> the end of the month if all goes as planned.  I happened to be sitting
 >> at the system trying to catch up in here when the deluge came (g)
 > Good news on the house..  :)

 JK> Yes, we were really happy that it went so fast after being listed. 
 JK> We didn't really want to think about going through another winter.
 
To say nothing of the possibility of frozen pipes again... ;)

 >   I imagine the deluge looked almost
 > surreal... ;)  Especially being overtired as well...  :)

 JK> Heh.. Yes, when you see that much mail (I dunno some 4000 messages)
 JK> getting packed and sent out to all of my downlinks... it was a trip.

The most I got from it was from one of xxCarol's downlinks... over 5800
just from the dump...  And, with it being a Synchronet bbs, I couldn't
find any way to fix my pointers without actually just downloading the
whole mess... sigh...  

... "Self-explanatory" is technospeak for"Incomprehensible & undocumented"

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