-=> Quoting Sean Rima to Nancy Backus on 05-29-11  15:16 <=-

 SR>> Maybe it only affected some of us, I had messages back to 2005
 SR>> dumped here
 NB>> I only saw the dump on one of the eight bbses that I check regularly.
 NB>> Perhaps the others have better dupe checking and/or have saved
 NB>> messages from further back.  But the one had the same dump you did...
 NB>> it was quite a surprise for me to have suddenly a couple hundred
 NB>> supposedly new messages to me from what always was fairly quiet even
 NB>> back in those days...  :)

 SR> Due to a change to a 64 bit machine none of my old mailer software
 SR> would work, so I went back to BBBS, which resulted in a clean and
 SR> unpopulated message base :)

That would certainly do it.  Not sure why it happened at the one bbs
that I noticed it at, though... it's still on its long-standing setup as
always... and I had thought he saved plenty of messages, but maybe not
that far back...  :)

 SR> And it is very quiet here

I see that the dump seems to have generated some new life, anyway... :)

ttyl      neb

... Black holes: What you get in black socks.

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